How to Use salesroom in a Sentence

salesroom

noun

• That result was enough to earn applause from within the Sotheby’s salesroom.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 14 May 2026
• Somewhere around the fourteenth time, a stillness settled onto the salesroom.
  — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
• There are 700 people in the salesroom, according to the press release.
  — Cam Wolf, GQ, 27 Oct. 2017
• At Christie’s Rockefeller Center salesroom.
  — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 30 Apr. 2026
• The objects that everyone so desperately wants to put in the salesroom have become, in a real sense, too expensive to make money from.
  — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
• Three steers busted up an Indian Motorcycle salesroom, a momentary triumph of four legs over two wheels.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021
• The first part of the event, an invite-only live auction, will be held on September 25 at Christie’s salesroom in London.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2022
• The feel of being home The C & P bungalow started out as the salesroom for a real-estate company selling such homes.
  — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 22 Mar. 2018
• The record was set following a three-and-a-half-minute bidding war between three would-be buyers at the auction house’s New York salesroom and another over the phone.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 June 2021
• The overall atmosphere in the salesroom on Monday evening was muted, with few lots selling above their high estimates at a pace that, at times, felt glacial; 13 lots failed to sell.
  — New York Times, 14 May 2018
• Just like a television station, both auction houses have added control rooms filled with producers and directors who watch every camera angle and monitor where the action is in the salesroom.
  — Carol Vogel, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
• The meeting took place in the main salesroom, on the seventh floor, and consisted of a question-and-answer session with Tad Smith, the company’s chief executive.
  — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
• In a statement, Hanson Ross's head of operations Amanda Butler said salesroom employees were amazed to see the original scripts.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
• Sotheby’s opened a new salesroom and international collectors are arriving for the inaugural Art Basel Paris fair.
  — Haruka Aoki, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
• Even today, when people complain that much of the excitement of live bidding has disappeared, salesrooms at the major auction houses retain a singular atmosphere of politesse and extortion.
  — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
• But his team is also reconfiguring its salesroom in New York to allow for the eventual return of collectors to bid traditionally—in person.
  — Kelly Crow, WSJ, 13 July 2021
• This week, Christie’s will seek to outdo that by transforming its own Rockefeller Center salesroom into a veritable shrine to their location’s namesake.
  — Kelly Crow, WSJ, 5 May 2018
• Christie’s salesroom at Rockefeller Center was filled with the familiar faces of dealers and art advisers who clearly welcomed the opportunity to bid on blue-chip artworks in person again.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2022
• Steinway salesrooms, offices, and storage were based in the building for decades, along with a 240-seat recital hall that was in operation between 1925 and the beginning of World War II, before being converted into office space.
  — Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 11 May 2026