How to Use dining room in a Sentence

dining room

noun
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  • Off the dining room is a door that opens to the home’s side yard.
    — Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2024
  • In the area behind the dining room was the large outdoor unit.
    — Teju Cole, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Yes, the menus are bound in plastic in the 250-seat dining room, awash in red booths.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The lights were on in the big barn of a dining room, but there wasn’t a soul inside.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The staff had just arrived in the dining room, which was not open yet.
    — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Just around the corner from the kitchen is the formal dining room.
    — Hartford Courant, 18 Feb. 2023
  • To the right of the entry foyer is the formal dining room.
    — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2024
  • The Red Circle Inn in Nashotah has been sold and the dining room will be closed for six to eight weeks.
    — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The last stop on Mr. Rifkin’s tour was a small private dining room.
    — New York Times, 25 July 2022
  • Slow down and gather around the dining room table and have that tray of tacos.
    — Gregory Burnett, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2023
  • On the right, a long bar with its own burgundy leather stools with backs looks out on the dining room.
    — Susan Stapleton, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Connected to the dining room — called the black room/hall — was the bathhouse.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2025
  • We weren’t allowed to leave the building to go to the dining room for breakfast.
    — Eldad Beck, Sun Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The layout features two sets of stairs that frame the dining room, one of which leads to the main room upstairs.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 16 Apr. 2024
  • This allowed for more natural light to flow through from the kitchen to the dining room.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Inside, the dining room features a garage theme and has more than 175 seats.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The teams were tasked with renovating the kitchen, dining room, and pantry of their home.
    — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Piles of food were on the dining room table, and cousins and aunts were wandering in and out of the house.
    — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
  • When the tour is over, they’re invited to meet the residents in the dining room.
    — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • In the morning, meanwhile, breakfast is served in the large, serene ground-floor dining room of the main house.
    — Zoe Dubno, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Floor-to-ceiling windows in the main dining room frame the lake and the tufts of fall foliage along its shore.
    — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Hang it on a door, on the wall, or place it on the dining room table as a centerpiece.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2023
  • With the walls removed on both ends of the kitchen, there was now a complete flow from the dining room through the kitchen to the living room.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The lounge transitions into one of the main dining rooms via a cool, twisty space.
    — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Customers also keep the plate out as kitchen and dining room decor.
    — Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 8 Feb. 2024
  • This includes a pair of black leather chairs with chrome frames, set in two corners of the dining room.
    — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2024
  • On the main floor, an open kitchen abutted a double-height dining room.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The dining room will double as a sleeping room for men.
    — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2023
  • On the second floor is a private dining room for 36, as well as a private bar.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The kitchen has penny tile floors, and between the dining room and breakfast nook is an original stained glass window.
    — Angela Serratore, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025

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