How to Use storeroom in a Sentence

storeroom

noun
  • In the caged prop storeroom next to a pink pie gag box and a flower vase.
    — Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 7 June 2024
  • Police said the man ran into a storeroom and climbed on top of a cooler.
    — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The man marched us into the storeroom, pressing his gun into my back.
    — Gabrielle Union, Glamour, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Enrico showed me the storeroom where these riches were locked up at night.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2017
  • The fire broke out in a storeroom off the bar building, which was a total loss and had to be torn down.
    — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 2 Feb. 2020
  • And there are reasons behind what goes on display and what gets left in the storeroom.
    — Jack Ashby, Smithsonian, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Three dry droppings inside a box of soft tortillas on a shelf in the dry food storeroom.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 30 Apr. 2017
  • The waffle irons sit idle in his storeroom, the frozen sausage taking up space in a freezer.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Tens of thousands more books were stacked chest-high across the storeroom, blocking one of its two exits.
    — Michael Forsythe and Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2016
  • But for a variety of reasons, the kits sat filed away in storerooms and the cases went nowhere.
    — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The team must have found the essence of those brawlers bottled up in a storeroom somewhere and poured it straight into the code.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • The worker, a storeroom clerk, died over the weekend after taking sick leave for more than a month.
    — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2020
  • It had been stowed in the storeroom for decades and is now potentially worth millions of dollars.
    — Laura M. Holson, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • And the doors off to the side, to storerooms or toilets, were like submarine doors, with a big black gasket around them.
    — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
  • In the hands of a museum director who wants to make some space in the storerooms, these works are threatened.
    — Simon Worrall, National Geographic, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Most of the artists who created these works have been long forgotten, and their paintings locked away in dusty storerooms.
    — Simon Worrall, National Geographic, 2 Sep. 2017
  • The clubhouse was Gift Ngoepe’s home, an equipment storeroom his bedroom.
    — Gerald Imray, The Seattle Times, 26 May 2017
  • Walmart employees can now use mobile devices to check whether an item is in stock and avoid trekking to distant storerooms.
    — Christopher Rugaber, The Seattle Times, 1 Jan. 2019
  • That has many antique dealers struggling to figure out what to do with the items remaining on their shelves and in their storerooms.
    — National Geographic, 8 July 2016
  • Beneath the surface were chambers—a living room, an instrument room, and a storeroom—that had been dug out of the snow.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • As police cleared the streets, staff in shops and restaurants ushered customers into storerooms and basements.
    — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2019
  • Mike checked with DeMatha and, lo and behold, a storeroom held 200 reels of old game film.
    — Washington Post, 6 July 2021
  • At the corner of the shop, across from vacuum filters, attachments and hoses, a white door opens into a storeroom.
    — Julia Jones, CNN, 11 Oct. 2020
  • In the basement of Carnegie Observatories sits a storeroom filled with plates of glass.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2017
  • Karim Khan had told him one morning to clear the storeroom of the garbage lying there, empty Dalda ghee tins and piles of jute bags.
    — Daniyal Mueenuddin, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Another Metro employee who worked as a storeroom clerk died of the virus about three weeks ago after being on sick leave for more than a month.
    — Justin George, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The man ran into a storeroom at the back of the Dollar Tree and climbed on top of a cooler, Krynsky said.
    — The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Soko means storeroom The space that’s now home to Soko was a liquor storeroom prior to it being transformed into the stylish jewel box.
    — Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The digging got underway the first night in February 1944, in a storeroom at the back of the bunker.
    — Matthew Shaer, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Glade Hill’s master canner put away his oils, and showed me into the back storeroom, which still contained a blackboard and a worn oak school desk inscribed with his name.
    — Shane Mitchell, Saveur, 21 Feb. 2018

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