How to Use inn in a Sentence

inn

1 of 2 noun
  • We stayed at a cozy little inn in the country.
  • In the next scene, the pair share a room at an inn for the night.
    Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The inn sits at the edge of the Lahaina Harbor in the historic district.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Meghan checked into the inn on March 24 and planned to check out on March 30.
    Kyani Reid, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The second group are tourists sent by inns and bed and breakfast hosts in the area.
    Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Make it to an inn to give your dog-tired heroes a rest.
    Aaron Zimmerman, Ars Technica, 8 May 2023
  • The Bird-in-Hand inn could use roughly a dozen more workers.
    Sarah Chaney Cambon, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The home served as an inn on Milwaukee Avenue in the 1800s.
    Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2022
  • On the lawn of the inn, Löschner opens the 2022 ceremony.
    Rebecca Frankel, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The inn is steps from the dock for the Frances Barkley, a ferry that sails along Alberni Inlet.
    Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
  • In the 1960s, old huts were updated, inns sprang up in the valleys, and the TMB took on its present form.
    Doug Mayer, Outside Online, 15 Feb. 2023
  • In the film, Peter’s and Phil’s paths first cross at the restaurant at the Montana inn run by Rose.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The inn was purchased by the town in 2013 after it was found to be in a state of disrepair.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Though the inn supplies ear plugs, I was never tempted to reach for them.
    Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Open year round, the inn offers a gift shop and full-service restaurant.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2023
  • The inn itself, in the heart of downtown, is a haven of quiet coastal luxury.
    Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
  • And no, not to Montreal, but to a remote-ish inn tucked into the snowy woods next to a frozen lake.
    Corey Seymour, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Four rooms at the inn were used as film sets, including the lobby, the library lounge, and two guest rooms.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Like him, the dingy white roadside inn — built in the 1930s by a fellow Mason — had weathered a lot.
    Brianna Sacks, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • With the new hotels, Marriott will manage 3,200 rooms in six inns.
    Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The night of the murder, Dmitry throws a bacchanal at a nearby inn.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • The inn where Daphne and Simon spend their wedding night in season one of Bridgerton.
    Emily Burack, Town & Country, 3 Apr. 2022
  • His inn was near another hotel, the Columbian, where Hemings worked at the time.
    Christina Tkacik, Baltimore Sun, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Spend your nights at the elegant inn or in one of their charming cottages.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2023
  • After a session, spend time at the inn’s Five-Star spa, an art class or one of the six onsite restaurants.
    Katie Sweeney, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The inn, located in Millersburg, sits about an hour south of Akron, on 56 acres of private land.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Two former school buildings were torn down to make way for a new three-story inn.
    Anna Mazurek, Chron, 22 July 2022
  • And sure enough, that evening the two strangers ended up in the same Burgos inn, which was filled with other Camino walkers.
    Francesca Street, CNN, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Included in the deal is the Magic Castle Hotel, a modest inn on the site that draws tourists.
    Roger Vincentstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2022
  • By the Middle Ages, long before Johnson’s time, certain inns used pewter for mugs to keep beer and ale cold.
    Time, 23 June 2023
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inn

2 of 2 verb
  • By the time his first inning a mile high was in the books, the Padres trailed by a run.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2019
  • But Marquez still wasn’t out of the first-inning woods.
    Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 15 July 2019
  • The record books are strewn with ninth-inning bright flames who flamed out.
    oregonlive.com, 26 July 2019
  • The Mets came back to take a seventh-inning lead on the Atlanta Braves.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2019
  • That inning the Eagles scored the game's first run on a bounce-out to short.
    Mark Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 June 2019
  • Durham’s Andrew Kittredge closed the game out with a three-inning save for the Bulls.
    Jordan Guskey, Indianapolis Star, 24 June 2018
  • The only run the Twins scored came on a double play that helped end a sixth-inning threat.
    Jeff Miller, latimes.com, 10 June 2018
  • The Padres went down in order in the ninth on three strikeouts – their ninth, 10th and 11th whiffs in a four-inning stretch.
    Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 July 2018
  • The Orioles had a 4-0 lead to start the game, and Means pitched a hitless inning to preserve it.
    Giana Han, baltimoresun.com, 28 June 2019
  • From July 20 through the end of the season, Stock threw more than one inning 11 times.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019
  • Smith was able to end the half inning just one pitch later, but the damage had been done.
    Christian Simmons, sun-sentinel.com, 13 July 2019
  • On the seventh pitch of the first-inning at-bat, Bauer froze Votto with a slider.
    Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati.com, 11 July 2018
  • The Phillies fell on an extra-inning home run at Citi Field for the second time in three days.
    Matt Breen, Philly.com, 11 July 2018
  • Most pitchers had reached the four-inning mark at the time spring training games were shut down.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2020
  • At the half-inning break closest to midnight, the crowd rises to its feet to sing the Alaska flag song.
    Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2018
  • Indeed, in a bowl of blue against a team in blue, the Giants suffered more first-inning blues.
    John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 18 June 2019
  • Despite the big-inning potential, the Orioles scored just run one to take a 2-1 lead.
    Eduardo A. Encina, baltimoresun.com, 26 June 2018
  • One of them ended the Mariners' second-inning threat after Gamel's hit, which was the third straight allowed by Keller in the frame.
    Maria Torres, kansascity, 1 July 2018
  • Canning stuck around a little longer on his way to his first six-inning start since late June.
    Maria Torres, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2019
  • Toribio, an 18-year-old third baseman, had the lone hit among the crop - a second-inning single against Conor Grammes in Game 2.
    Rusty Simmons, SFChronicle.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The ninth-inning comeback helped salvage one of the best outings from Tyler Mahle this season.
    Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati.com, 19 June 2019
  • Williams was safe, a run scored, and the inning the Phillies needed to rally for a 3-2 win could continue.
    Matt Breen, Philly.com, 7 July 2018
  • Hamels escaped a first-inning jam after two walks with a 6-4-3 double play and then breezed through much of the the next five innings.
    Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram, 19 June 2018
  • Thirteen of the Lions’ 26 wins came by way of a five-inning run-rule performance.
    Jordan Guskey, Indianapolis Star, 9 June 2018
  • Fan videos sound like a great thing to provide during inning breaks and on broadcasts.
    Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 7 Apr. 2020
  • In a ninth-inning rematch Sunday, Freeman flied out to left field.
    Charles Odum, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2019
  • Garver’s seventh-inning home run was his 30th of the season, making him the third Twin to reach that milestone.
    Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Fernandez said a first-inning error allowed the game’s only run to score, and a tired Rams team couldn’t get on the board.
    Walter Villa, miamiherald, 7 June 2018
  • His second-inning single was part of the rally that produced the Angels’ first run.
    Jeff Miller, latimes.com, 9 June 2018
  • The error added 14 pitches to Liriano’s first-inning total of 40.
    Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2018

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