(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.
Restroom
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) As the separate facilities provision is permissive, states that authorise schools to define sex to include gender identity for purposes of providing separate restroom, locker room, showers, and other intimate facilities will not be impacted by it,” said Judge O’Connor.
(2) North Carolina legislators have approved a bill that prevents cities and counties from passing their own anti-discrimination rules, including a measure that allows transgender people to use the restroom aligned with their gender identity.
(3) The South Dakota bill, which would mandate school restroom facilities and locker rooms “be designated for and used only by students of the same biological sex”, passed the state senate and awaits a decision from the state’s Republican governor, Dennis Daugaard, who is said to be favorable to the bill.
(4) The future It is therefore surprising that this now discredited notion has been resurrected in the current debate over who can use which public restrooms.
(5) The results indicated that, as compared to the pretraining competencies, the training was effective in teaching restroom cleaning skills.
(6) If he uses the women’s restroom as the law requires, the suit said, “it would also force him to disclose to others the fact that he is transgender, which itself could lead to violence and harassment”.
(7) The study was designed to examine the efficacy of using three levels of prompts on three autistic clients' acquisition of 18 response sequences in cleaning a restroom.
(8) Last week Target made an announcement on its website, under a mash-up of the company logo and a rainbow: “We welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity.” It was the most high-profile statement on bathrooms from a major company, and drew cheers from supporters.
(9) For a typical workload of approximately 25-30 procedures per day, it was found that radioactive contamination ranged from approximately 10(3) Bq 100 cm-2 99mTc for the nuclear medicine restrooms to approximately 10(4) Bq 100 cm-2 for men's toilet facilities.
(10) 'Papers to pee': Texas, Kentucky and Florida consider anti-transgender bills Read more “It’s better to prevent this danger by closing women’s restrooms to men rather than waiting for a crime to happen.
(11) The authors describe a woman who died suddenly in an emergency department restroom after self-injection of corn starch in an attempt to gain admission to the hospital.
(12) De La Rosa noticed him standing by the restroom, where "a female wearing a white burka head dress" [sic] would emerge.
(13) Fresh from writing to the retail giant , Target, to fret that their inclusive restroom policy could be a recipe for criminality, Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, filed an amicus brief last week along with representatives from Arizona, Kansas, Nebraska, Maine, North Carolina and Utah, in an appeal against a Virginia court’s ruling in favour of a transgender student named Gavin Grimm who is seeking to use the boys’ restroom at his school .
(14) Amid protests by Republicans and church leaders, the mayor, Annise Parker, removed language stating that no business could deny a transgender person access to the restroom consistent with his or her gender identity.
(15) While the Obama administration is being sued, the real targets here are vulnerable young people and adults who simply seek to live their lives free from discrimination when they go to school, work or the restroom.
(16) The effect of the odor of androstenol on restroom-stall choices was investigated over a 5-week period.
(17) Finally, Victorian values that stressed the importance of privacy and modesty were subjected to special challenge in factories, where women worked side by side with men, often sharing the same single-user restrooms.
(18) In 2015, Fox claimed that a concerned mother was booted from a department store simply for complaining about a “man” harassing her daughter in the restroom.
(19) With this decision, we hope that schools and legislators will finally get the message that excluding transgender kids from the restrooms is unlawful sex discrimination.” A three-judge panel from the fourth circuit court of appeals handed down the split decision as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the Gloucester County school board.
(20) The law, HB2, effectively forces trans people to use restrooms that correspond to the sex assigned to them at birth, which critics say is unenforceable and a clear violation of the US Civil Rights Act.