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Example sentences for "cloakroom"

Lexicographically close words:
cloacal; cloak; cloake; cloaked; cloaking; cloaks; cloam; cloath; cloathed; cloathes
  1. Illustration: One of the Most Reverend of the Senate Walruses] Senator Hanway had thought of this, and the cloakroom move did not disconcert him.

  2. The cloakroom walruses smelled the odor of burning blubber and returned eagerly to their cakes of ice, for there is nothing so pleasing to your true walrus as the spectacle of a brother walrus being grilled.

  3. In the ladies' cloakroom Claudia and her chaperone found themselves in a brilliant, impracticable crowd.

  4. As so many of the guests had already gone, they found the halls and anterooms comparatively free of crowds, and easily made their way to the gentlemen's cloakroom and the ladies' dressing room, and thence to the entrance hall.

  5. She thought perhaps the teacher had sent the little girl to the cloakroom as a punishment.

  6. Miss Gordon entered the cloakroom just as the child darted through the doorway.

  7. They went into the cloakroom to get their wraps, and Miss Davis had to turn on the light for them because it was so dark.

  8. The boots had been left in the cloakroom since the last snowstorm.

  9. Common sense told her that the numbered slip was a cloakroom check.

  10. She knew by it that she must have reached the story above the ground floor, and that the large corridor of the cloakroom opened on to a gallery overlooking the main hall.

  11. The ladies who left their wraps in this upstairs cloakroom must be dining in private rooms on the same floor, she thought.

  12. Fischer, who had just received his hat and cane from the cloakroom attendant, stood watching her.

  13. Lesbia's plot was quite sufficient to content her comrades; they hurriedly arranged their parts, and flew to the cloakroom for anything they could commandeer in the way of costumes.

  14. On Wednesday Calla greeted her in the cloakroom and drew her aside.

  15. Lesbia, going into the cloakroom at eleven, about a fortnight after the birthday, was horrified to find her beautiful bag lying on the floor near the boot rack.

  16. We shall be having 'Silence' in the cloakroom next.

  17. Her voice, which was generally a scared whisper, was actually audible over half the cloakroom as she announced: "My uncle told me last night that we've won the first prize.

  18. The Sixth joyfully snatched the opportunity offered to them, put away books, tools, and other impediments, and went to the cloakroom to change their shoes.

  19. They hurried from the cloakroom and tore into the hall, to discover the truth for themselves.

  20. You know, the pink and white queen I was tellin' you about meetin' at the swell dancin' class where I subbed for Izzie in the cloakroom and was invited out to join the merry throng.

  21. Maybe he planned on stoppin' in at the cloakroom too, and seein' if I was holdin' down the job proper.

  22. He almost swallows his cigarette from the jar he gets, being spoken to by a common cloakroom checker.

  23. The wind-up came just as we gets around near the cloakroom door and we stops.

  24. This way, lady," says I, and when she pikes right by and heads for the cloakroom I almost has a fit.

  25. This cloakroom opened off the back of the main schoolroom.

  26. Then the tallest of the little girls swung the door of the little cloakroom wide open and they all ran in.

  27. The thing had been done in the cloakroom where the kindergarten children hung their hats and coats.

  28. There was a little delay in the cloakroom while the attendant searched for Philip's hat, which had been temporarily misplaced.

  29. He boarded a surface car for the sake of sitting wedged in amongst a little crowd of people, and he entered his club, noting the number of hats and coats in the cloakroom with a queer sense of satisfaction.

  30. As he stood by the cloakroom door someone touched his arm.

  31. The memory of Raymond's face as he had seen it when the young man strode out of the cloakroom and out of the hotel came back to him and with it a great heart-throbbing sense of relief, of triumph.

  32. There were some coats hanging in the cloakroom just like mine, almost the same, made of gray tweed.

  33. He crept away into the cloakroom and waited there, feeling as he had never felt in his life before.

  34. It just wants five minutes till breakfast-time, and perhaps in these five minutes you could carry up all the things that were brought down for the charades from the cloakroom to the schoolroom.

  35. Instead of remonstrating with Vivian, as she might have done, or threatening him with his father’s displeasure, she went quietly into the cloakroom and took down two greatcoats.

  36. A detective stationed in the cloakroom actually saw the man raising the weapon.

  37. Two windows on the second floor and one in the cloakroom near the front door were raised a few inches, but drawn curtains screened from observation any watchful eye which might be stationed behind them.

  38. Out of the cloakroom flew the parrot, fluttering up on the teacher's desk.

  39. As she opened the cloakroom door the harsh voice again sounded more loudly than before.

  40. He left his bag in the cloakroom at Charing Cross and spent the hours of waiting for the boat train tramping the streets in the vicinity of the station.

  41. And if it was a case of Miss Gillian--Forbes retired with an armful of ulster and rugs into the cloakroom to hide a sympathetic grin.

  42. I saw it in the cloakroom on the boot-rack," volunteered Joyce.

  43. She was only gone a moment or two, but she returned to the cloakroom with a curious look of amusement on her face.

  44. She tackled Opal in the cloakroom when the latter was tying her shoe-laces.

  45. She marched into the cloakroom with a jaunty "don't care" air, and immediately began to talk about the circus.

  46. I'll take them into the cloakroom and coach them while you suggest the idea.

  47. She watched another dance, heard Mr. Weston recite "The Raven," and then went to the cloakroom for her shawl.

  48. For several weeks that summer she was again at Earls Court, but with the reopening of the theatres she obtained a place in the ladies' cloakroom at His Majesty's.

  49. I shall take a change of clothes and leave my uniform and rifle in the cloakroom at the frontier station, and get them out again on the way back.

  50. It was a young man with a check for the things; he was waiting for them now in the cloakroom and he seemed nervous.

  51. And to the waiter when he appeared: "Tell the woman in the cloakroom to let this young man have the things.

  52. Then with the cloakroom ticket he went round to see if he could find the office which had issued it.

  53. The cloakroom attendant sprang to his feet.

  54. There was a shout and they both saw the cloakroom attendant spring over his counter.

  55. The whole affair was a matter of seconds, yet Arnold dashed through the door to find Rosario a crumpled-up heap, the cloakroom attendant bending over him, and no one else in the vestibule.

  56. He had just handed his silk hat to the cloakroom attendant, who had turned away with it, when the man who killed him slipped out from somewhere, caught him by the throat, and it was all over in a few seconds.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cloakroom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.