waiting room

Example Sentences

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Just as impressive—and easily missed in the station wings—is the 400-seat Grand Brasserie in the original beaux-arts waiting room of Vanderbilt Hall with 55-foot-high ceilings, swaths of marble and gigantic chandeliers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Managing the background actors in the waiting room is a full-time job, handled primarily by crew member Nicole Jones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Or you might enter directly from the street into an office, without the pacifying liminal space of a waiting room.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

A packed waiting room, doctors under pressure, mental health crises.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

I take in the waiting room to my right, forcing my eyes over every faded plastic chair, into every corner, but I don’t see them.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam