waiting room
noun
: a room (as in a doctor's office) for the use of persons (such as patients) who are waiting
Examples of waiting room in a Sentence
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The young men cowered in the waiting room and on the upper floors, terrified that their attackers might find them.
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Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
In the clip, Grande sits in an ominous waiting room while going over a consent form.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2024
Then again, for most of us fighting in a restaurant, blowing up a business deal over a broken toilet seat, talking during a prayer service or going to all-out war with a coffee shop owner or another patient in the doctor’s waiting room would mean shame, social ostracism, possibly jail.
—Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
On a recent afternoon in an RHA clinic, a midwife crouched by a patient in the waiting room with a Haitian Creole translator at her side.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2024
Sofia recalled meeting Gentili a decade ago in the waiting room of the Apicha Community Health Center.
—Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 17 Feb. 2024
As soon as the four singers entered the dental office, in their striped barbershop regalia, word got around and the waiting room filled with surprised patients.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
At his dermatology practice in the 1980s, patients without the virus didn’t want to sit in the same waiting room as people with Kaposi sarcoma, a kind of cancer that is triggered by a weakened immune system and can result in skin lesions.
—Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2024
International media have also taken notice as online fans pace the world’s most crowded, albeit virtual, delivery waiting room.
—Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2024
Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
In the clip, Grande sits in an ominous waiting room while going over a consent form.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2024
Then again, for most of us fighting in a restaurant, blowing up a business deal over a broken toilet seat, talking during a prayer service or going to all-out war with a coffee shop owner or another patient in the doctor’s waiting room would mean shame, social ostracism, possibly jail.
—Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
On a recent afternoon in an RHA clinic, a midwife crouched by a patient in the waiting room with a Haitian Creole translator at her side.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2024
Sofia recalled meeting Gentili a decade ago in the waiting room of the Apicha Community Health Center.
—Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 17 Feb. 2024
As soon as the four singers entered the dental office, in their striped barbershop regalia, word got around and the waiting room filled with surprised patients.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
At his dermatology practice in the 1980s, patients without the virus didn’t want to sit in the same waiting room as people with Kaposi sarcoma, a kind of cancer that is triggered by a weakened immune system and can result in skin lesions.
—Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2024
International media have also taken notice as online fans pace the world’s most crowded, albeit virtual, delivery waiting room.
—Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2024
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“Waiting room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/waiting%20room. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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