dressing room
noun
: a room used chiefly for dressing
especially
: a room in a theater for changing costumes and makeup
Examples of dressing room in a Sentence
He waited in his dressing room until it was time for him to appear on stage.
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After Amanda rushes off the stage in tears and decamps to her dressing room, West declines to go after her, sitting around onstage like a deer in headlights.
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Marlow Stern, Variety, 3 June 2026
Business cards appeared in Adele’s dressing room.
—Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Another quirk of being on the home side of the draw is that PSG will get to use the home dressing room at the Puskas Arena in Budapest.
—Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 30 May 2026
Aniello, who directed both bookend episodes, replicates her own long, dynamic shot from the series premiere, which tracks Deborah from the closing joke of her zillionth Vegas set, through a backstage warren of minions and admirers, to her dressing room.
—Judy Berman, Time, 29 May 2026
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Marlow Stern, Variety, 3 June 2026
Business cards appeared in Adele’s dressing room.
—Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Another quirk of being on the home side of the draw is that PSG will get to use the home dressing room at the Puskas Arena in Budapest.
—Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 30 May 2026
Aniello, who directed both bookend episodes, replicates her own long, dynamic shot from the series premiere, which tracks Deborah from the closing joke of her zillionth Vegas set, through a backstage warren of minions and admirers, to her dressing room.
—Judy Berman, Time, 29 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for dressing room
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“Dressing room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dressing%20room. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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