Example Sentences

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These students receive their instruction in scattered old buildings, in basements, in dining-rooms, in kitchens transformed into laboratories.

From Time Magazine Archive

The dining-rooms are on the first, the dancing hall on the second, and we girls have to occupy the third floor.

From The Journal of Countess Fran?oise Krasinska Great Grandmother of Victor Emmanuel by Kasimir Dziekonska (translator)

He then walked into the breakfast and dining-rooms, the conservatory, and Lady Gernon’s boudoir, ending by taking a turn in the garden; but Isa was still invisible.

From The Sapphire Cross by Fenn, George Manville

They are not the triumphs of great houses, with regiments of yellow plush and gold candelabra; they affect no vast dining-rooms, nor a private band.

From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James

The house was furnished as luxuriously as possible, for only recently have people conceived the happy idea of making dining-rooms comfortable.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various