How to Use parlor in a Sentence

parlor

noun
  • Cafés and ice-cream parlors are packed.
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • The games in the parlor room of the inn are even more bizarre.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026
  • So who’s in the room, who’s in that gaming parlor?
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The play ends at a bingo parlor, which is an apt metaphor for the play.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2023
  • The real parlor from the film still serves up hot pies today.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2022
  • What better way to take your mind off a breakup than to hit up a tattoo parlor.
    — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The main house also has an ice-cream parlor with a booth-style sitting area.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The second floor has both north- and south-facing parlors.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The parlor floor serves as the home’s centerpiece.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 June 2026
  • The four-bedroom home also can woo buyers with its parlor and full bar.
    — Dallas News, 11 Dec. 2022
  • That tourist-trap tattoo parlor may double as a house of regrets.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Expect deluxe rooms with king-sized beds and top-of-the-line linens paired with old-school parlors and tea rooms.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2026
  • There is also a full-service restaurant, rooftop bar and ice cream parlor.
    — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The homes are large, often made of stucco and have parlors, sun rooms and living rooms.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Browse art galleries, crystal stores, old time saloons and ice cream parlors.
    — Amber Turpin, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The parlor offers three choices of play for customers.
    — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado january 2, Sacbee.com, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Who says parlors can’t be practical?
    — Serge Gleizes, Architectural Digest, 19 May 2026
  • Double parlors are set on one side of the hall on the first floor; the dining room and study on the other.
    — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The parlor offers three choices of play for customers.
    — Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Gold plaques and fading photographs of women in robes adorn the walls of the parlor.
    — Dodai Stewart, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The main level has a living room, a parlor, a dining room, a kitchen and an office.
    — Kathy Orton, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Olivia hid in the basement of the funeral parlor, curled up and crying.
    — Charlie Wells, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Over the next hour and a half Archie will usher groups of cows in relay into the parlor.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Instead, it is squeezed next to a gaming parlor that echoes with clacks from a foosball table.
    — Nina Strochlic, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Back in the parlor, the visitors traded notes.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The building that is now the ice cream parlor is nearly a hundred years old, Joy said.
    — Sophia Vento, Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2023
  • The parlor itself will seat about 24 players.
    — Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
  • If your bestie is dressing up as Frenchy, join her with this silver beauty parlor look.
    — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The donuts will be available only at Malley’s stores with ice cream parlors.
    — Alex Darus, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2023
  • People can choose a tattoo from the parlor’s sheet and patrons can bring their own designs.
    — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado february 13, Sacbee.com, 13 Feb. 2026

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