common room

Example Sentences

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On the evening of Jan. 15, 26 undergrads gathered for dinner in a common room at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to debate the fairness of college admissions post-affirmative action.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

Some common room shapes include: rectangular, square, angled and curved.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2023

Seated adjacent to the facility’s dingy common room, we became, in the playwright’s own staging, fellow residents.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2023

The common room where everybody went was the parking lot.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2022

He had been quite convinced that the common room was empty; he had not been at all prepared for a hulking figure to rise suddenly out of a distant chair.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling