How to Use common room in a Sentence

common room

noun
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  • Along with the common room, the rest of the tour pays homage to the notorious house.
    — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Once found, it was taken back to the commons room of the church, where it was placed in a grate and lit.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 30 May 2018
  • There’s a fireplace in the lounge and a library-style common room.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • One of the most common rooms to remodel is your kitchen.
    — Diane Cowen, Houston Chronicle, 5 June 2018
  • One of the earliest video clips, dated April 2017, shows a common room in the jail’s gay and trans dorm.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
  • In the common rooms, the walls are finished in Venetian plaster.
    — Jack Flemming, latimes.com, 16 June 2018
  • Crown molding and French doors are found in just about every common room.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2019
  • The common room where everybody went was the parking lot.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Bi-folding doors off the common rooms open to a covered patio.
    — Jack Flemming, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
  • The photo finds the trio in good spirits, catching up in what appears to be the Gryffindor common room.
    — Oliver Gettell, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2021
  • At the firehouse, there is a common room where the television is always on, a pot of chili is on the stove and bags of cookies sit on the counter.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 20 Nov. 2019
  • On the other side of the common room is a bedroom with four large windows, a double closet and a full bath.
    — Carol Riordan, courant.com, 28 Dec. 2017
  • Enjoy the gurgle of potions and the shuffling of papers in Slytherin’s common room!
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2021
  • The classroom walls facing the common room are really glass doors, which can be opened.
    — Emma Kate Fittes, Indianapolis Star, 22 July 2019
  • Downstairs there’s a common room with a TV, a pool table and a baby grand piano.
    — Nick Watt, CNN, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The problem was a white student calling police on a black student asleep on a couch in a common room of their dorm.
    — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 12 May 2018
  • Upstairs, pad around men and women resting on mats in the common room, the flat-screen TV again showing a cooking show.
    — Amy Scattergood, latimes.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Several giant beanbags and old futons lay in a pile in the co-op’s dusty common room.
    — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Fights broke out daily in the gym and common rooms, and guards sometimes strapped biting and spitting detainees to chairs with mesh bags over their heads.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2020
  • One was kept in the office of a mental health clinician who was pregnant, and the other in a common room where the rest of the staff would congregate.
    — Ivy Scott, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2022
  • In a common room, Roberta Walker, a 47-year-old mother of seven, wept, yelled and calmed, as if a sudden storm had swept through her.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • And this week, a white woman called police on a black Yale graduate for napping in her dorm's common room.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN, 10 May 2018
  • The pandemic robbed her of the sweet mornings spent in the common room, every classroom together singing and getting ready for the day.
    — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 7 Apr. 2022
  • At Yale University in 2018, a white student called the police on a Black student for sleeping in the common room of their dorm.
    — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Watch for the huge Oriental rug in front of a massive stone fireplace in the inviting and cozy Gryffindor Tower’s common room.
    — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Throw this knit on your bed for a little House pride or use it as a wall tapestry to turn any space into a Hogwarts common room.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 5 Dec. 2022
  • There's so many memories of us in the common room playing board games — a very specific board game called Secret Hitler.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The Tradition features many amenities such as large common rooms, card playing rooms and pools.
    — Rebecca Hazen, Houston Chronicle, 2 May 2018
  • Just about every common room connects to a central courtyard with a turf dining area.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
  • But now, in a white-walled common room of Sarah’s apartment complex, her mother began defending the reason that Guy had gone to D.C.
    — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023

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