antechamber

Example Sentences

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It was January 1998 and Robert Bourgi was waiting to see the Gabonese president Omar Bongo, in an antechamber at his seaside palace in Libreville.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2024

A portrait of the thin-mustachioed director as a saintly figure sits alongside stained glass recreations of some of his most famous collaborators, including Divine and David Lochary, in a chapel-like antechamber.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2023

As darkness blanketed the city, the only spectacle left was in parliament, where teenagers and young men bedded down for another night on the mattresses they have laid out in the grand antechamber.

From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2022

One evening in 1997, Looter-1 and another person found the statue in the antechamber of Prasat Krachap, prosecutors said.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2021

They stopped dead at the sight of the girl and the tiger standing together in the glittering, lamplit antechamber.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks