(n.) A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.
Example Sentences:
(1) For a while, she worked as a cloakroom attendant over the lunchtime sessions at the Cavern.
(2) Johnson said that if he and Mittal had not bumped into each other in a Davos cloakroom "we would not be where we are today".
(3) "Last week my overcoat was taken from the members' cloakroom, where it was left over a weekend on my peg," writes mournful Tory Richard Benyon.
(4) "The box office used to be a girl sat on a stool at the top of the stairs with a petty cash tin and some cloakroom tickets.
(5) Much more reliable than the traditional diagnosis in the school cloakroom, this website is like the knowledgeable big sister you wish you'd had as a teen.
(6) Guards carry out brisk body searches; bags have to be checked into a makeshift cloakroom.
(7) Even so, the experience is exact to the extent that the stage is largely lit by candles, with the result that, with the addition of 340 people sitting in a small space, ushers at The Duchess of Malfi were warning customers to leave their coats in the cloakroom because it had turned out to be "so hot in there."
(8) We were not ready for the new curriculum, our marking was shoddy and our cloakrooms were shabby but the children loved learning and had loads of fun.
(9) By the time the storm clears, he looks like a cloakroom attendant.
Lavatory
Definition:
(a.) Washing, or cleansing by washing.
(n.) A place for washing.
(n.) A basin or other vessel for washing in.
(n.) A wash or lotion for a diseased part.
(n.) A place where gold is obtained by washing.
Example Sentences:
(1) He fired four bullets through a lavatory door, killing Steenkamp, who was in the cubicle inside the athlete's house in an upmarket housing complex in the capital Pretoria.
(2) I’ve had run-ins with Virgin train lavatories too.
(3) There’s a report of smoke in the forward lavatory [and] a minute later there’s smoke in the avionics bay, which is very worrying; and then two minutes later the flight control computers, one after the other, start to fail,” Learmount told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
(4) And while Altmejd presents sexual scenes of cartoonish horror and disgust, Lucas's art has embraced lavatorial humour, abjection, self-denigration, the pithy sculptural one-liner and the obscene gesture.
(5) This is from the 1949 Variety Programme Policy Guide for Writers and Producers: "There is an absolute ban on the following: jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men, immorality of any kind; suggestive reference to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, prostitution; extreme care should be taken in dealing with references to or jokes about marital infidelity."
(6) If neither of these sounds enough of an incentive to ditch your lavatory for one with its own Twitter account, you may be in the minority: a recent survey suggested that 70% of people would be willing to share data from their lavatory if this could lead to healthcare savings.
(7) Clearly, the fact that some mainstream viewers want something doesn't mean they should be given it – or EPGs would offer a network called Lavatory – and it can be argued that the current two-track coverage offers a choice to both viewers who want to be protected and those who want unregulated images.
(8) And I ran to the lavatory, and cried and howled – 'Why?
(9) Perhaps more intrusive is the idea of an Internet of Things-enabled lavatory, which uses sensors inside the bowl to sample your stool and provide health-related insights.
(10) When she uses public toilets, she likes to rub her vagina around the lavatory seat, and she has experimented with "long periods of not washing my pussy", to investigate its erotic impact - dabbing her own personal pubic perfume behind her earlobes.
(11) My daughter will be at the new germ-free Glasto with 40 volunteer litter pickers, screening a new documentary to raise money for children living on distant rubbish tips , so that they may have clean clothes, schools and lovely hygienic lavatories, which they also long for.
(12) In a three-urinal lavatory, a confederate stood immediately adjacent to a subject, one urinal removed, or was absent.
(13) But most people shrugged and got on with finding bricks to put in the lavatory cistern or measuring the bathwater to the five inches recommended by civil servants in Whitehall.
(14) At least the lavatory is out on the landing, although shared with another resident.
(15) Lewis had been the brains behind the “love your body” advertising campaign for Unilever’s Dove soap brand and ran other successful marketing programmes for the household goods group around the world — including one that forced rival Proctor & Gamble to pull Ariel out of parts of South America because the name became synonymous with lavatory seats.
(16) Those who were too ill to work were thrown overboard, some interviewees reported, while others said they were beaten if they so much as took a lavatory break.
(17) Although 90% of respondents felt that condoms were readily available, sales in supermarkets, newspaper stands, and vending machines in women's lavatories were recommended.
(18) As its name and flat roofs and metal-framed windows suggest, the New Era estate also dates from that time; it was built by a philanthropist to give its working-class tenants the benefit of electricity, baths, indoor lavatories and hot running water.
(19) It was a little reminiscent of that scene in The Godfather when Al Pacino leaves a "mediation" meeting with his father's would-be killers to go to the lavatory in an Italian restaurant in New York chosen for peace talks aimed at averting an all out war.
(20) This is true for 26% of the waiting rooms, 20% of the elevators, 30% of the passages and 46% of the lavatories.