waiting room

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Recent Examples of waiting room The volunteers were told the courtroom was at capacity and stayed in the waiting room. Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026 The boys sat in one waiting room and then another. Andrew Jones, CNN Money, 25 Feb. 2026 The boys sat in one waiting room and then another. Andrew Jones, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026 Two of them had even joined the waiting room early. Shayla Love, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for waiting room
Recent Examples of Synonyms for waiting room
Noun
  • Spots for leisure are in no way hard to find; SEA is a stone's throw away from waterfront lounges like Kingfisher, which bubbles with live music, seafood, and a lively clientele, as well as new Italian spot Forno and art space Sachs Gallery.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Amenities include fitness facilities, a lobby, lounge and two-story parking garage.
    Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The anti-Zionist group Kufiyas in Buchenwald announced a demonstration at Buchenwald on April 11, the anniversary of its liberation, in protest against a German court’s decision that the site could refuse entry to visitors who wear a Palestinian keffiyeh.
    Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026
  • One likened it to a real-life Rotisserie League, costing him a mere $1 million entry fee.
    Roger Simmons, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Video of that incident shows Peters grabbing the other woman and shoving her into the center of a hallway.
    Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2026
  • With no room left in the courtroom, others were left in the hallway.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Entering the studio, a visitor passes through a small bathroom vestibule to the right and a storage compartment to the left.
    Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2026
  • From pre-war apartment building vestibules to farmhouse bathrooms to kitchen backsplashes, penny tiles have graced spaces of all kinds since their inception in the early twentieth century.
    Heather Bien, The Spruce, 8 Mar. 2026

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