How to Use reception area in a Sentence

reception area

noun
  • The project also would bring a new look to the front desk reception area.
    Laurinda Joenks, Arkansas Online, 16 May 2023
  • The main-deck layout bucks the usual trend of serving as the main reception area.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2023
  • That includes the reception area, which used to be a train station.
    Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
  • The main floor will be outfitted with a reception area, a bar, a lounge, and retail space for guests.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 25 June 2024
  • Materials like work bricks and tools were piled up in the reception area of the house and lime and plaster used to make walls was found.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The ramps to the Japanese gardens’ outdoor reception area will be made wider, and the slope on the path leading to the area will be reduced.
    Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
  • If there are cameras in the reception area, video should be obtained and preserved.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Still, a few determined fans (or just looky-loos?) found a way to peer over the wall surrounding the reception area.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The nearly 3,000-square-foot studio boasts high ceilings in both the reception area and main room, where group classes are held.
    Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2023
  • The hotel’s reception area has also been relocated to the ground floor from the 23rd floor.
    David Morris, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Past the reception area — laden with Dior Maison goods — are the three treatment rooms, each with their own showers and infrared spas.
    James Manso, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Tucked inside the library on your right is the reception area — complete with bookshelves, cozy chairs, and a whiskey decanter.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2023
  • Dangling from the high ceiling in the Forest Hall reception area will be a metallic tree canopy sculpture.
    Jeastman, oregonlive, 22 July 2023
  • The first floor will serve as a visitor reception area, which the Lina building does not currently have.
    Lise Alves, ARTnews.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • In the lavish reception area, more than a dozen people have been waiting for nearly two hours for Donald Trump to emerge.
    Sam Jacobs, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Margouleff led me through a tidy workshop and into a reception area with a kitchenette and a wall of a half-dozen supersized Vox amps.
    Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
  • Forty or so people, most of them Black or Latino, gathered in the reception area of the Bronx Defenders office.
    Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The following day, Fetterman posted to social media a short video of the wall in his reception area covered with posters of the hostages.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • The main gallery building and reception area are in a repurposed and renovated old horse barn.
    Gigi Ragland, The Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The Spa Located separately from the main reception area, the spa is its private oasis, where lush greenery drapes the space.
    Jenn Rice, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Photos from the scene show the reception area, including a dining space and music room, was devastated by the blaze.
    John Bacon, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2025
  • In it, Megan crashes her car through the wall of a reception area and poses in various waiting room scenes, including a fish tank and chessboard.
    Walden Green, Pitchfork, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The reception area is located within the impressive dome on the building’s fifth floor, which adds a bit of flair to the usual hotel check-in procedure.
    Ryan Smith, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Generally, le rez-de-chaussée (the ground floor/reception area of a building) has an area for mail and an elevator (or staircase) and that’s about it.
    R29 Team, refinery29.com, 14 Oct. 2024
  • At a makeshift reception area, rugs and pillows are arranged on the floor with cuddly toys for children, as well as water bottles and magazines.
    Anna Schecter, NBC News, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The reception area was walled with Despont’s immense paintings of imagined planets and seemed designed to be grand and imposing.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 July 2024
  • The main level houses a reception area and a sprawling living room with sea views, as well as a contemporary kitchen with state-of-the-art appliances and a dine-in breakfast bar.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 31 May 2023
  • Communal spaces, like the reception area, dining rooms and the spa, are lodged in separate buildings based on their function.
    Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The record arrives alongside a chaotic music video that finds the rapper twisting into contortions on top of a reception area desk, dancing in the desert, and posing in a fish tank.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The chairs were in pristine condition, perched in the reception area of the software company Sitecore’s office in downtown San Francisco.
    Erin Griffith, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023

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