(n.) A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cooled by a floor fan, nurses, doctors and support staff in blue scrubs move through the small anteroom next to the isolation ward to juggle the needs of the desperately ill patients inside as a stream of people knock on the canvas door asking for updates on their loved ones.
(2) But over 45 years, an individual employer thinking of taking on someone and wondering ‘Can they manage?’, might have thought, ‘That guy reached senior positions in the cabinet, perhaps I will interview that person.’ Perhaps there is hope.” Stacks of boxes crowd his anteroom.
(3) During half of an hour of chit-chat in an anteroom, before taking their place at the dinner table, May told Juncker that she didn’t want just to talk Brexit during the evening but there were other matters of world affairs to discuss.
(4) ’ As he’s leaving the room he’s taking his jacket off to go outside.” Hookem said the pair went into a small anteroom off the meeting venue, using different doors: “When I walked in, he approached me to attack me.
(5) Cameron had sought out Kirchner at the margins of the G20 in an anteroom before the first working session got underway.
(6) In Bob Rafelson's The King Of Marvin Gardens, the Atlantic City of 1972 becomes the anteroom to Paradise for two brothers: one a depressive talk-radio host, the other a manic huckster.
(7) When handling stress was minimized by placing the animals in an anteroom for 10 min before starting the test, the distribution of responding was normal although the overall frequency was still reduced.
(8) I go through that endless anteroom between extreme violence and the stupefied awareness of that violence.
(9) "All employment for women, then, was regarded as being an anteroom to marriage.
(10) The number of superfluous young people condemned to the anteroom of the modern world, an expanded Calais in its squalor and hopelessness, has grown exponentially in recent decades, especially in Asia and Africa’s youthful societies.
(11) The very first step began with the "sensus communis", an anteroom-like where all the sensations simultaneously perceived were coordinated to ensure mind unity.
(12) A couple of hours later, he was in the cabinet secretary's anteroom, where Sir Robert produced two files.
Foyer
Definition:
(n.) A lobby in a theater; a greenroom.
(n.) The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Palmer was unaware the Coalition's Direct Action bill was before the Senate You are very naïve when it comes to politics, my girl Figuring out how Palmer envisages this could ever eventuate is one aim as we sit down the next morning for an interview in the resort’s “Titanic II room”, adjacent to the resort’s foyer, pool room and empty breakfast bar.
(2) What to say to the children who went to a pop concert and left to find their waiting parents blown apart by the hate and callous indifference in the foyer?
(3) Alan arrived on his own and we greeted each other in the foyer.
(4) Far from the initial foyer, the spreading seems mostly done through airways.
(5) After the election, Gove took this all down and put this 19th-century pupil writing desk in the foyer.
(6) He looks like a disgusted George Clooney, or a man arguing about brogues in a hotel foyer in a Tom Ford film.
(7) In the foyer, the gunman looked directly at a man working behind the bar who ducked and shielded a woman working with him from shots, he told Kolek afterwards.
(8) In a running confrontation, both sides threw molotov cocktails, one of which set alight a makeshift barricade in the foyer.
(9) The imposing foyer, which links them, is an exhibition space.
(10) The union has stressed the need for peaceful protest to its 33,000 members; last night saw the vice-chancellor Michael Arthur, chair of the Russell Group and a big player in national university politics, hold one of his regular Q&A sessions in the union foyer.
(11) When the council took the decision – with its landlord East Thames Housing – that 30 families were ready to move from the Focus E15 Foyer in Stratford, we should have engaged with them from the start, planned how we would support their next steps and worked with them individually.
(12) In some ways, roaches are no different to gorillas, gerbils or iguanas, or any creatures that we don’t routinely eat Representatives of many of these enterprises have made their way to Ede, carting along product samples or prototypes to display in a large foyer at the conference hotel.
(13) The restriction of smoking to a foyer area outside the office complex resulted in a slow but eventual reduction in nicotine concentrations in the office complex.
(14) Foyers are a French idea developed in the UK in the 1990s by the housing charity Shelter and drinks giant Diageo.
(15) Arctic Monkeys were one of the first to play Ibiza Rocks in 2007, and their debut album seems to be on constant repeat in the foyer, which feels appropriate given the residents checking each other out around the pool, thinking something along the lines of: "I bet you look good on the dancefloor..." There is a small supermarket next door, over half of which is given over to alcohol.
(16) Busy foyers, unexpected music, lights going up and down and applause can all be unsettling.
(17) Once Galloway and Wilson have left the stage, the former takes up residence in the foyer, where he signs copies of two books that shine a light on his singular politics: his Fidel Castro Handbook, and his account of the sectarian ugliness experienced by the Celtic manager, Neil Lennon .
(18) Drew had tried his absolute best to have this reading come through, inasmuch as he had emailed details of Toby and how he died to Sally's website and had left notes (so-called "love letters") in a box in the foyer just before the show.
(19) The rest, in residential care homes, foyers or other arrangements, are often the most vulnerable, but simultaneously the least likely to be told of their rights, or offered care and support on saving care.
(20) I'm standing in the foyer, and I can hear a huge crowd laughing.