How to Use boiler room in a Sentence

boiler room

noun
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  • Bring your sales team out of the boiler room and back into the fold.
    — Vanessa Dreifuss, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • These are the control valves in the boiler room at Camp North End.
    — Ely Portillo, charlotteobserver, 25 Jan. 2018
  • In 1964, a staffer with a cash box was robbed by two men at gunpoint and locked in the boiler room.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Less than an hour later, the men left the unlocked boiler room.
    — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 26 May 2022
  • It was accessed by a basement door from the boiler room.
    — Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 3 Dec. 2019
  • With Charles in a stroller, the three of them manage to reach the boiler room just in time to prevent Jan from gassing the whole building.
    — New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021
  • He is transferred from the basement boiler room to the airy upper-floor suites where the big shots make their calls.
    — New York Times, 2 July 2018
  • One night in 1966, the watertight doors in the engine and boiler rooms were ordered to be closed.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The basement has a gas boiler room, a wine cellar and storage rooms.
    — New York Times, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Olympia Resort was cited for a false alarm at 9:42 a.m. Oct. 5 when a fire alarm from a boiler room went off.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Kate Bertram told the board her daughter and friends hid in a boiler room during the incident.
    — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The workers took down most of the apartment building's boiler room and used that space to store debris, the report said.
    — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com, 8 Dec. 2017
  • But there's more on Angela's mind than making out with Jordan in the boiler room.
    — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 25 Mar. 2021
  • But in the segregated Hollywood of the time, that wasn’t enough to get Bubbles out of the boiler room.
    — Brian Seibert, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Children play on potholed parking lots and in a boiler room with no lock on its door.
    — Richard Webner, San Antonio Express-News, 30 June 2018
  • One tableau features a gaunt and sooty man shoveling coal in what looks like the boiler room of a penal colony.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
  • A day later, on March 30th, the same commander came into the boiler room.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Stephens said that Nassar exposed himself to her in a dark boiler room.
    — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • At one point the Russian soldiers conscripted Turash and others to dig a pit at least 10 feet deep next to the boiler room.
    — Valerie Hopkins, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
  • An explosion in the boiler room of a Maryland school injured a child and two adults Wednesday.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The next morning, a Russian soldier opened the door to the boiler room at 8:30 a.m., earlier than normal.
    — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 26 May 2022
  • And people running them can cast a much wider net with robocalls than boiler rooms full of humans.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 May 2018
  • The penthouse is invisible from the street, and was converted in the 1980s from what was then the boiler room of the former Prince George Hotel.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The tests spanned every classroom in the school and the boiler room, which was closest to the groundwater where the chemical was found, 10 to 15 feet below ground.
    — Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Everding had his own company to run and could repair the decades-old relics only in his spare time in his boiler room.
    — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Workers tried and succeeded, Chiao says, to remove 4 feet of water from the boiler room.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Next, the guide leads everyone to the boiler room in the upper level through a zigzagging metal staircase.
    — Seattle Sketcher Gabriel Campanario, The Seattle Times, 10 Mar. 2018
  • An email from a school spokeswoman to parents said a boiler room explosion blew off the top part of a building’s smokestack.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The next year was spent constructing the decks, interiors and boiler rooms.
    — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 23 June 2023
  • Before the war, Mikhailo Dzhos, who is fifty-six, worked in a boiler room that supplied hot water to a group of apartment buildings in Izyum.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023

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