jury room

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a private room, adjacent to a courtroom, where a trial jury discusses a case and reaches its verdict.

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Origin of jury room

First recorded in 1760–70

Words nearby jury room

juryman, jury-packing, jury process, jury-rig, jury-rigged, jury room, jury wheel, jurywoman, jus, jus canonicum, jus civile

How to use jury room in a sentence

Toomey glides around the room like a Brazilian capoeira dancer.
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The 2001 grand jury indictment named 21 suspects as being involved in the U.S. embassy bombings, including Osama bin Laden.
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One day he and some of his roommates were cleaning their room and one of the guys threw the dustpan out into the hall.
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Marvin and I leave the poolside and go into his dining room.
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The resources were what you might expect: Dining room, a media center, a library, a TV room, a meeting room, a computer room.
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The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
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His lordship retired shortly to his study, Hetton and Mr. Haggard betook themselves to the billiard-room.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
When his lordship retired early, as was his custom, the other men adjourned once more to the billiard-room.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills