Sample Sentences for
anteroom
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    Her husband had been sleeping since midnight in a little deserted anteroom with three other gentlemen whose wives were enjoying the ball.  (source)
    anteroom = a room leading to a larger or more important room
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    To sleep under the stars, to drink nothing but well water and to live chiefly on nuts and wild fruit, was a strange experience for Caspian after his bed with silken sheets in a tapestried chamber at the castle, with meals laid out on gold and silver dishes in the anteroom, and attendants ready at his call.  (source)
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    I was led to an adjoining anteroom—a smaller office, where some of the eight had gathered.†  (source)
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    Long before 9:00 we were standing in the big wooden anteroom of Administration.†  (source)
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    They passed through a series of anterooms, into the high central chamber under the onion.†  (source)
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    Paul whirled, ran back through the anteroom and out onto the atrium lip above the outer chamber.†  (source)
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    On each side of the main room were what appeared to be small anterooms, the entrances covered by black curtains.†  (source)
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    It waited in the anteroom off the main basilica to be fitted for the plain wooden coffin.†  (source)
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    He was excitedly interrupted by the Sergeant at Arms, who told him that even then—two hours before the Senate was to meet—the chamber, the galleries, the anterooms and even the corridors of the Capitol were filled with those who had been traveling for days from all parts of the nation to hear Daniel Webster.†  (source)
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    Eleanor Dokes had tended to the jurors; they were gathered in the anteroom getting coats on.†  (source)
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    How was it that in the weeks since her marriage, Dorothea had not distinctly observed but felt with a stifling depression, that the large vistas and wide fresh air which she had dreamed of finding in her husband's mind were replaced by anterooms and winding passages which seemed to lead nowhither?†  (source)
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    His long-suffering secretary, the implacable Madame Treville, occupied an orderly desk in the anteroom, and at the opposite end of a narrow hall was the office of Rousseau's deputy, Christian Bouchard.†  (source)
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    He thought of telephoning about leases, of cajoling men he hated, of making business calls and waiting in dirty anterooms—hat on knee, yawning at fly-specked calendars, being polite to office-boys.†  (source)
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