How to Use sitting room in a Sentence

sitting room

noun
  • Why not use your guest room as a sitting room when guests aren’t in town?
    — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 21 July 2022
  • Currin joined us in the sitting room, and shook hands with Toor.
    — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • There are also sitting rooms on the first floor with cozy fireplaces.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The library, opened up to the main bedroom, is now a sitting room.
    — David Netto, ELLE Decor, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The owners’ suite alone has two — a round office and a round sitting room.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 16 Jan. 2021
  • The third, with a sitting room and principal suite, is topped with straw.
    — Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 1 June 2022
  • Between these rooms is the third bedroom, which works as a sitting room or guest room.
    — The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Stay in one of five one-of-a-kind second-floor suites with plush bathrobes and cozy sitting rooms.
    — Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 20 June 2025
  • So that means kitchen, living room, dining room, and sitting room.
    — Megan Stein, Country Living, 2 Dec. 2018
  • This property includes a loft with a guest suite and sitting room.
    — oregonlive, 13 June 2020
  • The ground floor includes a more formal dining room, sitting room and study.
    — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The master suite on the main floor includes a library and study (or sitting room).
    — Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
  • While some may argue that the kitchen is the heart of a home, the sitting room makes for a mighty fine contender.
    — Town & Country, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The table and chair can also move aside when the space needs to serve as a more formal sitting room.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The suite’s large main room includes a fireplace and a sitting room, tucked into a large bay.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2020
  • On the other end is a three-bedroom, three-bathroom guest wing with its own sitting room area.
    — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The primary suite is located on the first floor and has its own sitting room.
    — Brianna Griff, Chron, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The master suite opens to a nursery and a sitting room with a marble fireplace.
    — oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2021
  • The owner’s suite on the second floor has a balcony and a sitting room with a fireplace.
    — Kathy Orton, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
  • One of the suites upstairs has its own sitting room between the bedroom and en suite bathroom.
    — Mary Grace Granados, Dallas News, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Our dinner began with cocktails and canapés in front of the fireplace in one of the sitting rooms.
    — Alyson Krueger, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2017
  • The square sitting room had a gas fireplace and little brown moths that fluttered in the corners.
    — Jhumpa Lahiri, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • The living room, sitting room and staircase are a rich green color with white trim and ceilings.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2018
  • Head to the sitting room for relax by the hearth, or pop into the dining room to enjoy a meal or two.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 6 June 2025
  • In the master bedroom, there is a walk-in closet, sitting room, suite and a garden tub.
    — Indianapolis Star, 19 June 2019
  • Its one-bedroom set-up includes a sitting room, eat-in kitchen, patio space, and its own three-car garage.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 9 Aug. 2025
  • That might sound a lot to claim for a 19th-century painting of a sitting room.
    — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The scenery was an integral part of the design in the sitting room, which looks out over a large bay window.
    — Marni Elyse Katz, House Beautiful, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Police found Lizzie's father stretched out on the couch in the sitting room bludgeoned to death.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 31 July 2021
  • The front sitting room, for example, which doubles as a game room, is the scene of many convivial game nights.
    — Ariel Foxman, Architectural Digest, 9 Sep. 2024

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