How to Use waiting room in a Sentence

waiting room

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  • Where is the waiting room compared to the rest of the house?
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The front waiting room has a name —The Fermenter — and its own bar.
    — Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Often, there have been dozens of kids in the E.R. waiting room.
    — Rachel Pearson, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2022
  • In this instance, he had not been left in the waiting room the entire time.
    — Dr. Roopa Farooki, CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Her next option: sit in the short-staffed ER waiting room to be seen.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
  • On the other side of the office door, his waiting room was full.
    — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • At the show’s start, émigrés in the garb of many cultures mill about in a Kafkaesque waiting room.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • But then more and more people arrived in the waiting room in search of tests.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2021
  • If Joan went to get her teeth cleaned, John read the newspapers in the waiting room.
    — Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
  • Waits may be long but hang tight, because the waiting room, found at Gap.com/Yeezy, is open.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 8 June 2021
  • Some received treatment for a day or two in the waiting room.
    — Hailey Branson-Potts, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2021
  • That night and the year since has left behind a lifetime of grief and trauma for those in the waiting room.
    — Rashika Jaipuriar, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Her parents slept in the waiting room of the hospital for three months.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
  • On the fourth day, my wife said the doctor came into the waiting room and told her the bleeding had stopped and gave her the thumbs up.
    — Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Out in the waiting room, Nathan handed the results to Angie.
    — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2021
  • What used to be the clinic’s waiting room now has a small stage where punk and hardcore bands come to play.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 23 June 2023
  • As the darkness of night gave way to morning light, an Emory staffer approached me in the waiting room.
    — Helena Oliviero, ajc, 26 Jan. 2023
  • June returns to the waiting room, where Luke arrives with good news.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2022
  • At that moment a vet tech comes to fetch Blu for a checkup, and his legs give out right there in the waiting room.
    — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 8 July 2022
  • Because there were so many kids in the waiting room — about 20 other kids.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 June 2023
  • The clinic will include two exam rooms, a lab and a waiting room.
    — CBS News, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Back in the waiting room, still crying, the 2-year-old begged his mom, Lauren Von Allmen, to hold him.
    — Caroline Tien, San Antonio Express-News, 1 July 2022
  • Through the swarm of flies patrolling what once was a dentist’s waiting room, a hallway on the left leads to a large room on the north end of the building.
    — Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2022
  • All around him in the waiting room were people sick and injured, some still bleeding.
    — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 11 Aug. 2022
  • In the clip, Grande sits in an ominous waiting room while going over a consent form.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Some patients paid extra to be brought in the back door, rather than run the risk of seeing their daughters’ friends in the waiting room.
    — Jerry Adler, Good Housekeeping, 14 July 2022
  • The atmosphere in the waiting room is at once fearful and unsure.
    — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 27 May 2021
  • The clinic was small, with a waiting room in front and an examining room in back.
    — Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • As the hours went by and the waiting room emptied out, Palacios started feeling a sinking fear over the possibility that her husband would be detained.
    — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 25 June 2024
  • Stories about people dying in hospital waiting rooms populate the BBC.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024

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