How to Use hall in a Sentence

hall

noun
  • The bathroom is down the hall.
  • I'll meet you in the front hall.
  • Her office is at the end of the hall.
  • The front door opens onto a large hall.
  • We rented a hall for the wedding reception.
  • Grab a meal at one of the many food halls around the city.
    Jessica Poitevien, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2024
  • One of the candles on the chest of drawers in the hall went out.
    Thomas Korsgaard, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • When the hall hosted a teen night, the lightbulb turned on.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Flights of steps cascade down the western side of the main hall.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
  • Even now, like the scenes of the kids sneaking down the hall with a map — that’s my sister Patty and me.
    Cat Cardenas, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Four-Eyes replaced Sweatpants Kid as a call sign in the halls.
    Hazlitt, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Biden’s electors gathered in the House chamber down the hall.
    Adriana Usero, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • An aging player that's still in the game but not headed for the hall of fame.
    Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Seated in the hall next to his bodyguard, Putin snickered and slumped in his chair.
    Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The hall stills with the music, and an air of wonderment gathers.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2023
  • But in the years since, the restaurant has risen from the roadside to the perfumed halls of the Brazilian shopping mall.
    Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
  • Down the hall, in two rooms lined with bassinets, eight babies lay unclaimed.
    Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The new halls suggest the true story is not in the items a museum holds, but in the links between them.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Wade stood outside in the hall, and spoke to another man who had searched the hills on August 4th.
    Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The two-story entry halls lead to a dining room and an office.
    Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • One of those spaces includes this nook between the front hall and the main bedroom.
    Zoe Gowen, Southern Living, 22 July 2023
  • The building also was used as a meeting hall and for socials and church dances.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2023
  • On her way out of the hall, Chani gives one of those backward glances to Paul that Zendaya does so frequently in the new movies.
    Max Evry, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Fetterman often walks the halls in shorts and a sweatshirt.
    Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Down the hall, guests could test the latest Goop Beauty offerings.
    Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Photos from the scene showed forensic units examining the halls of the AK Plaza, where the stabbings took place.
    Kim Tong-Hyung, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The hall, while not packed in the usual way, still had thousands in their seats, and the audience was howling for the film, which opens Aug. 2 in theaters.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 July 2023
  • Then there was my fifth grader, who returned to the same school, to a classroom down the hall from last year’s, and who already knew many friends in her class.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The tour then returned to the main hall where people could resume drinking while learning about the bottling process.
    Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2023
  • There’s no better access to the halls of achievement and privilege than that.
    Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023

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