carrel

Example Sentences

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He shares his remote refuge, a forgotten carrel on the 9th floor, with a woman with a distinct resemblance to Ozeki herself.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2021

Dr. Fenno officially retired in 2003 but maintained a campus office — and a study carrel in the library — until his late 80s.

From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2020

If the guy in the next carrel who occasionally clips his nails also cleans the microwave, it’s harder to get annoyed.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2016

The manuscript did indeed survive, complete and unpublished, and I spent hours turning over its pages at a carrel there.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 9, 2015

There were nights that she told him she was at her carrel in the library when really she’d met Astrid and her baby, Esme, in SoHo, or gone for a walk by herself.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri