antechamber
Example Sentences
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Who should then be ushered into the same antechamber but Roland Dumas, former French foreign minister and right-hand man of ruling Socialist President François Mitterrand, Chirac’s arch-rival.
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2024
The paintings on display beyond the antechamber play on themes of spectacle, public perception and sleight of hand.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2022
So it was that we found ourselves in an ornate antechamber on Friday afternoon, being instructed on where to stand, where to sit and when to sit once in the presence of the president.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2021
Inside the Speaker’s Lobby — an ornate antechamber that opens onto the House floor — police had barricaded the door with chairs and furniture.
From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
