How to Use dayroom in a Sentence

dayroom

noun

• His race through the dayroom, his white t-shirt soaked in blood.
  — Joseph Neff and Alysia Santo, USA TODAY, 25 June 2019
• The $4 million project, styled like a cabin, has new sleeping quarters, a kitchen and dining room, a dayroom and laundry room.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2022
• Some of his spades partners from the dayroom eventually joined him.
  — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• The emergency beds were put in dayrooms in the pods, which individual cells look out on.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 3 June 2019
• In the dayroom, women spread out into almost every corner of the cozy space and sort through underwear, socks, pants and shirts.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 7 Nov. 2019
• Weidner opened the door to the dayroom outside Maricella’s cell.
  — jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2020
• Around the same time, the supervisor went into the Crystal Cove Unit and staff told her a patient was unresponsive in the dayroom, records show.
  — Katie Rice, orlandosentinel.com, 6 July 2021
• One afternoon earlier this year, a group of new guys sat in the common area of Lancaster’s dayroom.
  — Kunlyna Tauch, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2023
• He was granted other privileges, including the freedom to walk around a dayroom and to eat in the general dining room.
  — Edward Kiersh, SPIN, 11 Feb. 2023
• Eventually, the jailers ordered all of the inmates to the dayroom and left them there for a few hours before interviewing them about what happened.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
• According to arrest documents, Orphee was involved with breaking up a scuffle in the dayroom area of Pod 2A inside the jail.
  — Ken Daley, NOLA.com, 23 May 2017
• According to the arrest report, the incident began when a jail officer asked that Cruz not drag his sandals on the ground while walking around a dayroom area.
  — Eric Levenson, Amanda Watts and Jason Hanna, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
• Prisoners were sleeping in gyms, hallways and dayrooms.
  — ProPublica, 28 May 2019
• It was supposed to be a stopgap alternative to freeing inmates from prisons so crowded that inmates were bunked three-deep in gymnasiums and dayrooms.
  — USA TODAY, 27 June 2019
• That includes at least seven hours of dayroom time and three hours in an exercise area.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
• In response, Watts emptied his garbage bag and sent a full supply of dirty tennis balls spilling and bouncing across the dayroom.
  — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
• The lawsuit states that this is the first time any jail staff had been in the dayroom in six hours.
  — Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 23 Feb. 2024