How to Use dining room in a Sentence

dining room

noun
  • Off the dining room is a door that opens to the home’s side yard.
    — Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2024
  • In the area behind the dining room was the large outdoor unit.
    — Teju Cole, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The dining room is modest in size, and the menu is just shy of 20 items.
    — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 May 2022
  • There are high-top tables and stools at the edges of the dining room.
    — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Yes, the menus are bound in plastic in the 250-seat dining room, awash in red booths.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The lights were on in the big barn of a dining room, but there wasn’t a soul inside.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Two large olive trees in the center of the main dining room, which seats 84.
    — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2022
  • The staff had just arrived in the dining room, which was not open yet.
    — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Just around the corner from the kitchen is the formal dining room.
    — Hartford Courant, 18 Feb. 2023
  • On the other side of the kitchen, a wide hall leads to a formal dining room.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 6 Mar. 2025
  • To the right of the entry foyer is the formal dining room.
    — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2024
  • The main floor combines the kitchen, the dining room and the great room, adorned by a fireplace and mantel.
    — Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2022
  • The dining room tends to fill up fast, and service can be hit or miss.
    — oregonlive, 1 July 2022
  • The Red Circle Inn in Nashotah has been sold and the dining room will be closed for six to eight weeks.
    — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The last stop on Mr. Rifkin’s tour was a small private dining room.
    — New York Times, 25 July 2022
  • Heck, a part of the dining room is even built into an old bank vault.
    — Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Slow down and gather around the dining room table and have that tray of tacos.
    — Gregory Burnett, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2023
  • In the dining room, a painting of Amanda rests against a wall.
    — Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
  • On the right, a long bar with its own burgundy leather stools with backs looks out on the dining room.
    — Susan Stapleton, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
  • And to the right, there sits the dining room, which was the abode’s original stone cabin.
    — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
  • The spare but stylish main dining room would look at home in Brussels.
    — Washington Post, 18 May 2022
  • That's where the living plants in the dining room came from, paying homage to the tree in the former Lynn's cafe.
    — Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Connected to the dining room — called the black room/hall — was the bathhouse.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2025
  • We weren’t allowed to leave the building to go to the dining room for breakfast.
    — Eldad Beck, Sun Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2022
  • For now, the red paper lanterns still hang over a dining room filled with all walks of L.A. life.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The layout features two sets of stairs that frame the dining room, one of which leads to the main room upstairs.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 16 Apr. 2024
  • This allowed for more natural light to flow through from the kitchen to the dining room.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Inside, the dining room features a garage theme and has more than 175 seats.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The teams were tasked with renovating the kitchen, dining room, and pantry of their home.
    — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The dining room’s chairs, tables and swan figurines were all made from see-through crystal Lucite.
    — Violet Ikonomova, Freep.com, 8 July 2025

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