How to Use sitting room in a Sentence

sitting room

noun
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  • Currin joined us in the sitting room, and shook hands with Toor.
    — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The library, opened up to the main bedroom, is now a sitting room.
    — David Netto, ELLE Decor, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Why not use your guest room as a sitting room when guests aren’t in town?
    — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 21 July 2022
  • While some may argue that the kitchen is the heart of a home, the sitting room makes for a mighty fine contender.
    — Town & Country, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The cozy sitting room in the 2021 Whole Home is right down the hall from the main bedroom and bath, tucked away in a private wing of the house.
    — Carisha Swanson, House Beautiful, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The owners’ suite alone has two — a round office and a round sitting room.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 16 Jan. 2021
  • The third, with a sitting room and principal suite, is topped with straw.
    — Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 1 June 2022
  • There’s a sitting room off of the primary suite as well.
    — Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The master suite on the main floor includes a library and study (or sitting room).
    — Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Police found Lizzie's father stretched out on the couch in the sitting room bludgeoned to death.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 26 Dec. 2020
  • The table and chair can also move aside when the space needs to serve as a more formal sitting room.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The owner’s suite on the second floor has a balcony and a sitting room with a fireplace.
    — Kathy Orton, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
  • On the first floor, there’s a large reception room, sitting room, study and 20-foot by 23-foot games room.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Living room, sitting room, and screened porch are perched on columns 25 feet above the ravine.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 24 Apr. 2021
  • That might sound a lot to claim for a 19th-century painting of a sitting room.
    — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The suite’s large main room includes a fireplace and a sitting room, tucked into a large bay.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2020
  • The scenery was an integral part of the design in the sitting room, which looks out over a large bay window.
    — Marni Elyse Katz, House Beautiful, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The bedroom suite on the lower level has a vestibule, a large bath, a sitting room and a wall of windows that looks straight at the pool.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2021
  • At the front, above Main Street, is the main bedroom, with an adjoining sitting room.
    — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2021
  • The master suite opens to a nursery and a sitting room with a marble fireplace.
    — oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2021
  • When Earl and Brent finally got home, Gram was in her chair in the sitting room working on a quilt.
    — Tiphanie Yanique, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
  • There’s a second-floor sitting room with a balcony as well.
    — Dallas News, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The main bedroom, which comprises the entire south wing of the house, has a sitting room and walk-in dressing room.
    — Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The ground floor includes a more formal dining room, sitting room and study.
    — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
  • In the master bedroom, there is a walk-in closet, sitting room, suite and a garden tub.
    — Indianapolis Star, 19 June 2019
  • One of the suites upstairs has its own sitting room between the bedroom and en suite bathroom.
    — Mary Grace Granados, Dallas News, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The primary wing of the house, which has a large office, has a sun sitting room with a bathroom that has access to the pool area.
    — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The primary suite is located on the first floor and has its own sitting room.
    — Brianna Griff, Chron, 25 Sep. 2022
  • In the sitting room at Villa Mabrouka, a fire cuts the November chill.
    — Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Elsewhere are a sunny breakfast nook, a mudroom, a dining room, and a cozy sitting room with a wood-burning corner fireplace.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 24 Apr. 2024

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