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Example sentences for "room was"

  • In accordance with his desires, the yellow drawing-room was master of Plassans in November, 1851.

  • While the yellow drawing-room was deliberating on the evening in question, Aristide was perspiring with anxiety.

  • When they arrived, the yellow drawing-room was resplendent.

  • A few days later, the yellow drawing-room was in raptures.

  • However, the intelligence which caused the noisiest chattering in the yellow drawing-room was that of the resignation of the sub-prefect.

  • The doctor's consulting-room was fitted up in the same style, with household stuff from the paternal chamber.

  • Beyond this drawing-room was a splendid boudoir furnished with tables and cabinets in imitation of Boulle.

  • Madame's room was an exception to the squalid slovenliness that disgraced the living rooms, where the curtains were yellow with smoke and dust, and where the child, evidently left to himself, littered every spot with his toys.

  • To rise to the level of one of these fairies of the drawing-room was a desire formed in his youth, but buried in the depths of his heart.

  • To take him to Frank's room was impossible, and he had to be roundly told so.

  • At this moment, while the name of the god was still on her lips, the high open window of the drawing-room was darkened, and Bernard entered, followed by Mr Crosbie.

  • So they went off together, and, as the smoking-room was untenanted, Crosbie was able to tell his story.

  • At this moment the door of the dining-room was opened, and Mrs Lupex put in her head.

  • Then, as the door of the first reception-room was ajar, he at last ventured in.

  • Although the second-floor dining-room was so gloomy, saddened by the greeny half-light of the courtyard, the meal shared that day by the two ladies and the young priest proved a very gay one.

  • France, and his lecture-room was a center of good influences in favor of the American cause; in the midst of that frivolous Napoleonic France he seemed by far ``the noblest Roman of them all.

  • I entered hastily, like one behind time and in a hurry, and inquired where the court-room was.

  • The court-room was crowded as usual, and many had been turned away, who stood in knots about the halls and portico, holding the posts, and discussing politics and church matters.

  • Happily, the dining-room was at the back of the house, but Leah might be sewing in her mistress's room and see me.

  • I had a full share of the loaves and the fishes of the household; my room was as prettily furnished as Jill's; a bright fire burnt in the grate; there were pink candles on the dressing-table.

  • Thornton, who admitted me, said that Leah would be waiting for me in the blue room, as Miss Darrell's room was called; so I went up at once.

  • The door of the turret-room was closed, and Gladys would not hear his voice.

  • To slip back into the dressing-room was but an instant's work.

  • A typical boy's room was revealed, with college banners, colored prints, photographs and firearms.

  • The drawing-room was lighted by a single, tall lamp with a yellow shade.

  • The court-room was so still that when she paused for a word one could hear the clock on the wall tick.

  • Every eye in the court-room was turned on Gordon Strange.

  • Greer's room was in the end of the building nearest the store.

  • The floor of the store-room was laid at the height of twenty-seven feet above the rock.

  • The whole light-room was of stone, and its height to the top of the spire-funnel was thirty-one feet.

  • With the exception of Cynthia Murdoch's, every one's room was in this left wing.

  • My room was in the left wing, and looked out over the park.

  • The junior day-room was crimson in the face and incoherent.

  • The gaze of the senior day-room was concentrated on that ridge of purple beneath Sheen's left eye.

  • On that very morning the senior day-room was going to court-martial Sheen for disgracing the house.

  • Once in the hall, it was too dark to note further niceties of expression, and by the time Mr. Ransom's room was reached, purpose and purpose only remained visible in either face.

  • Ransom's room was empty; he was in the sitting-room below, closeted with the lawyer.

  • Had this good woman been less disturbed and not in so much of a hurry, she might have noted that the door of her literary guest's room was ajar, and stopped to ask why the lamp remained unlit.

  • Our friends' sitting-room was on the first floor, a corner room, having two sets of windows.

  • And he was still softly carolling that refrain, when the door of the sitting-room was opened.

  • This noble banquet-room was designed by the Earl of Burlington, and was intended to resemble an Egyptian chamber described by Vitruvius.

  • The ancient school-room was on a level with the street, the modern one is built over the cloister.

  • The livery-room was a fine lofty apartment, and next in size to the hall.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "room was" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    common sailor; course not; first and; half century; has given; heavy force; knew also; more consequence; necessary evil; not wholly; room again; room and; room artificer; room fire; room full; room house; room officers; room should; room table; room telegraph; room temperature; room together; room window; room windows; well watered; widely known