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atrium
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  • We are meeting in the atrium at five.
  • I go inside and scan the atrium for Maya, Hailey, or Chris.   (source)
    atrium = large public room
  • I'm playing hooky to hang out with Isaac, but he's sleeping, so I'm in the atrium doing geometry.   (source)
  • She kissed her mother on the cheek and together they walked to the abbey's atrium, where bridesmaids and grooms-men waited to make their entrance, along with Dean Liddell, who would escort his daughter down the aisle.   (source)
    atrium = a large public room leading to other rooms
  • Langdon followed the captain down the famous marble staircase into the sunken atrium beneath the glass pyramid.†   (source)
  • Atrium level.†   (source)
  • Toward nine o'clock, the Hyatt's vast atrium lobby began to fill with guests arriving for the ball.†   (source)
  • We added a new living room with an atrium when we moved in, and a small bedroom when we got word from the adoption agency in Des Moines that Du had made it out to Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Before he goes to bed, Volkheimer descends three flights of stairs to the atrium to check his mail.†   (source)
  • Therefore, Mr. Duke, in addition to granting you permission to plant a garden in the central, uncovered atrium, we have made the decision to ask you to be the Building Representative for the Gardens of Glenwood.†   (source)
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  • A bustling crowd of men and women—many of whom clutched rags to their mouths—filled a huge atrium topped with a glass ceiling far above, letting in loads of sunshine.†   (source)
  • Festus flew halfway up the atrium, then hurled the sun dragons into the pits they'd come from.†   (source)
  • Besides Tetha and Sarai and the teenagers, three others died in the crash as pieces of falling vehicles cartwheeled into the crowded atrium of the Opera House itself.†   (source)
  • Mae followed Renata out of the atrium.†   (source)
  • The day that Florentino Ariza saw Fermina Daza in the atrium of the Cathedral, in the sixth month of her pregnancy and in full command of her new condition as a woman of the world, he made a fierce decision to win fame and fortune in order to deserve her.†   (source)
  • Paul whirled, ran back through the anteroom and out onto the atrium lip above the outer chamber.†   (source)
  • Next, we stepped into a massive atrium, bursting with jungle leaves, vines tumbling down, branches climbing toward the sky.†   (source)
  • Then we'll go to the museum where Minou can get some cuttings from Tono for the atrium in her apartment.†   (source)
  • The modern entrance, a towering atrium with marble floors, lies a quarter of a mile away, at the end of a shiny corridor called the Pike—short for turnpike—flanked by banks of elevators, clinical departments to the right and left, inpatient wards on floors above, operating rooms below (forty, not counting the ones in obstetrics), dozens of laboratories in all directions, and mortal dramas everywhere.†   (source)
  • On Thursday, he was in the atrium of Scales Center after my class.†   (source)
  • The bell-like peals of ringing metal echoed off the ancient trees that surrounded the atrium.†   (source)
  • He kisses me again, softly, and then leaves the atrium.†   (source)
  • To one side of the atrium, in front of the glass wall, were ten chairs.†   (source)
  • He stopped to look down into the atrium of the Hart building.†   (source)
  • Everyone congregated in the entrance atrium.†   (source)
  • They walk through the mall together, ducking into a Nike store and then wandering through the atrium of ferns and benches.†   (source)
  • As I got closer, I saw it was on a jewelry stall, which appeared to be unmanned, although there were signs of someone having just left: a Jumbo Smoothie cup sweating with condensation was sitting on the register, and there was a stick of incense burning, the smoke wafting in long curlicues up toward the high, bright glass atrium-like ceiling above.†   (source)
  • Now he made a nick in the atrium of the heart, in the center of his purse-string suture.†   (source)
  • The concierge leads us to a dimly lit atrium.†   (source)
  • The loitering crowd suddenly surged toward the atrium.†   (source)
  • Inside was an atrium with stairs to the second floor.†   (source)
  • The hag's small red eyes darted greedily around the atrium.†   (source)
  • At the law offices they walked up many sets of stairs squared off about an enormous atrium.†   (source)
  • The breakfast nook, as he charmingly called it, was a huge, sunny atrium off the kitchen.†   (source)
  • Two paramedics materialized, racing across the atrium in white smocks.†   (source)
  • As Langdon had hoped, he burst out into the building's main atrium.†   (source)
  • The doors slid open and they stepped out into the now almost-deserted Atrium.†   (source)
  • Walking down the catwalk, the atrium visible below, brought her great peace.†   (source)
  • Now, if you'll just follow the Patronuses, you'll be able to leave the Atrium.†   (source)
  • Langdon turned and ran toward the sweeping marble staircase at the far end of the atrium.†   (source)
  • Langdon followed past what seemed to be countless hallways branching off the main atrium.†   (source)
  • The older man led the way up the side aisle and out the main doors into the light of a large atrium.†   (source)
  • Blazing sunbeams flooded Langdon's eyes as the elevator doors opened into the main atrium.†   (source)
  • The Atrium was full of people moving from fireplace to fireplace, sealing them off.†   (source)
  • "Level eight," said the witch's cool voice, "Atrium."†   (source)
  • The great Atrium seemed darker than Harry remem-bered it.†   (source)
  • They crossed an atrium that rose all five stories and featured a large fruit tree at its center.†   (source)
  • First, the left atriums get sewn together.†   (source)
  • Together with Hearthstone, he pulled me away from the atrium.†   (source)
  • She checked the street entrance to the atrium.†   (source)
  • Then a large portion of the Varden departed the atrium, which was noticeably quieter afterward.†   (source)
  • He went down a wide, well-lit corridor off the atrium.†   (source)
  • Columned porticoes faced the central atrium, which had a huge fountain and bronze braziers.†   (source)
  • I wondered what it meant that my atrium was exactly like the newcomer's.†   (source)
  • They walked out of the atrium in silence, down the corridors, past the rows of cubbies.†   (source)
  • Two red cords draped through golden posts formed a temporary path toward the atrium.†   (source)
  • The taller branches grew up through the opening of the atrium, making a lacy canopy.†   (source)
  • I stand on the higher step in the atrium and he stands on the lower one, so we're on the same plane.†   (source)
  • She strode up the steps to the entrance to the atrium at the fore of the megaron.†   (source)
  • He listened to the fountains, the occasional raised voice echoing a hundred feet up into the atrium.†   (source)
  • Lying in the middle of the atrium, I breathed in the fresh air and hoped my lungs would settle down.†   (source)
  • Eddis stood in the atrium, talking to a man on the balcony above her.†   (source)
  • Doric columns lined an atrium the size of a baseball diamond.†   (source)
  • Cara jogs into the atrium, her hair askew and floating over her forehead.†   (source)
  • Unlike the rest of the seats in the atrium, these had backs and were painted white.†   (source)
  • I'd been in several of my friends' rooms, but none of them had an open-air atrium.†   (source)
  • The high glass atrium lobby, gold columns rising to the third floor.†   (source)
  • Alan dressed and dropped through the atrium to the lobby.†   (source)
  • Monique gave the room one glance and then walked briskly toward the atrium.†   (source)
  • She glanced up at the balconies ringing the atrium.†   (source)
  • When I met them in Sif's atrium, they both looked bleary-eyed.†   (source)
  • I find myself in the atrium garden again, and this time, light glows behind the windows.†   (source)
  • The indoor atrium was warm, open to the public, and never crowded.†   (source)
  • At the edge of the atrium lay another pile of wreckage.†   (source)
  • The suite was shaped like a cross, with four sections radiating from the central atrium.†   (source)
  • I reach the end of one hallway and find myself in an atrium, surrounded by the smell of wet earth.†   (source)
  • Samirah's eyes looked like they were going to shoot across the atrium.†   (source)
  • As soon as I got back to the atrium, Alex doubled over with laughter.†   (source)
  • X's atrium was a big pool—a natural hot spring.†   (source)
  • In a trance, I moved to the middle of the suite, where a central atrium was open to the sky.†   (source)
  • I ended up in the atrium, sprawled on the grass, gazing at the stars through the tree branches.†   (source)
  • The chamber we were in seemed to be an interior atrium.†   (source)
  • I walked to the atrium and stared at the stars through the trees.†   (source)
  • Three ravens flew in, spiraled around my head, then landed in the lowest branch of the atrium tree.†   (source)
  • The three of us camped in the grass in the middle of my atrium.†   (source)
  • I saw Alex Fierro in her suite in Valhalla, throwing ceramic pots across the atrium.†   (source)
  • I remembered what Sam had told me in Sif's atrium: You have to stop him.†   (source)
  • They had reached the Atrium.†   (source)
  • That sound replayed in my head as Sonja and I watched Cassie and Colton scamper ahead of us in the Butterfly Pavilion atrium.†   (source)
  • The upper floors made a ring of balconies around a huge central atrium, so they could see all the way down to the ground floor.†   (source)
  • A slender wooden jetty arcs out from a beach called the Plage du Mole; a delicate, reticulated atrium vaults over the seafood market; minute benches, the smallest no larger than apple seeds, dot the tiny public squares.†   (source)
  • In the middle of the atrium a fountain sprayed water twenty feet into the air, changing color from red to yellow to blue.†   (source)
  • It was a three-story library, three levels built around an open atrium, everything fashioned in wood and copper and silver, a symphony of muted color.†   (source)
  • It jangled and banged lower and lower; the grilles slid open and Harry dashed inside, now hammering the button marked 'Atrium'.†   (source)
  • Langdon strode silently behind Vittoria and Kohler as they moved back into the main atrium where Langdon's bizarre visit had begun.†   (source)
  • "From that rear entrance, you're navigating through the Hall of Regalia, the Hall of Honor, the middle landing, the Atrium, the Grand Stair—"†   (source)
  • "The Atrium," said the cool female voice and the golden grilles slid open, showing Harry a distant glimpse of the golden statues in the fountain.†   (source)
  • They stood before the Renaissance, another building with a forty-foot atrium, a Calder mobile turning slowly above.†   (source)
  • Dominated by eight Doric columns of green granite, the atrium looked like a hybrid sepulcher—Greco-Roman-Egyptian—with black marble statues, chandelier fire bowls, Teutonic crosses, double-headed phoenix medallions, and sconces bearing the head of Hermes.†   (source)
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  • The right atrium and right ventricle are often referred to as the right heart.
  • He was never heard of as present in the atria of Rome.†   (source)
  • You have left a portion of your youth in the atria of the great capital; consider, as I do, what the Desert will be to you in contrast of life.†   (source)
  • …property were all mine, yet should he not have the least part of it, for when he finds our Jewish bills, and forces them to give up their values, there is yet another resort left me—a deed of gift to Caesar—so much, O Egypt, I found out in the atria of the great capital; tell him that along with my defiance I do not send him a curse in words, but, as a better expression of my undying hate, I send him one who will prove to him the sum of all curses; and when he looks at you repeating…†   (source)
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