How To Use Common room In A Sentence
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The ground floor also contains a common room, servery, kitchen, meeting rooms and offices.
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The JCR is in favour of situating a new joint JCR-MCR common room there, with a new quad and facilities for both undergrads and post-grads.
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Is it the duty of an already stretched institution to duplicate the role of common rooms, to cut back the funding to its essential political role, and seek to maintain an unwieldy sabbatical structure?
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Then he and Watts and the disappointed deputy doctor went off to bed, leaving "barkeep" to close up when the few loungers quit paying for drinks, and only in the common room was there further stir about the store.
Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War
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At afternoon lunch, I sat in the common room nibbling on my potato knish, listening to Jo and Fanny, feeling as if my insides were made of India rubber and all their words bounced around without touching me.
Deadly
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And it will be recalled fondly in many a university common room.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or I could say this: ‘Colin spilled into his common room, and I sloshed after him.’
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Another short corridor brought them to a large common room, with several other narrow passages leading off from it.
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Staff in common rooms elsewhere will have watched with interest, wondering whether the show is over.
Times, Sunday Times
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The common room was a large circular room, with three-quarters of the walls being sectioned into small little box-shaped cubby holes where university students got their usual circulars, mail, etc. etc.
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The reason for old gents' clubs - as grown-up common rooms for unmarried men who lodged in the City and couldn't cook for themselves - no longer pertains.
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Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory".
In praise of … Ramachandra Guha | Editorial
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Usually, however, they had a large common room called the scriptorium, where either the copyist and illuminator worked separately and each on his own account, or where a number of copyists awaited with pen and parchment the dictation by one of the fraternity of some work of which a number of copies had to be made.
Illuminated Manuscripts
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‘Lexi wants you and Mike to come out to the common room after dinner,’ his cracked voice replied.
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Sure there were a few drunks and wanton women scattered around the common room of the Gray Mule Inn, but it seemed like a friendly place.
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This remarkable facility includes classroom / workrooms, project rooms, advisory rooms, and a large common room.
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Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory".
In praise of … Ramachandra Guha | Editorial
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The mix would simmer slowly all afternoon, filling the common room with a savory smell that would have mouths watering by suppertime.
SHADOW OF A DARK QUEEN: BOOK ONE OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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Teeth gnashed in senior common rooms: could the university not support one expert in Sogdian?
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The result reads like one of those books men in pubs dare Tony Hawks to write; but instead of saying, "Hey, Tony, I bet you can't shlepp a fridge around Ireland," someone in a common room might have said, "Hey, David, I bet you can't find out how many phrases from the Bible we're still using.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Everyone was crowding round the TV in the common room at school.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its warmth circled the amply furnished common room it bordered, mixing with the early spring breeze lilting in through the open windows.
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Craft stalls will be situated in the common room throughout the event.
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We shared a ‘state room,’ which was actually a suite with a common room, a bathroom, and two smaller bedrooms for us at either side.
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He mooched around the Common Room for a few minutes wondering if he should go over his homework again but decided not to bother, he just wasn't in the mood.
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Through all its years, Three Chimneys had been a wayfare, a tavern for travelers to stop and find a good meal, perhaps a bed for the night in the common room or the barn.
The Lioness
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The whole common room resounded with shouts and whispers and protests, all caused by the calm cloaked woman who sat sipping her ale.
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The nuns built and rebuilt their churches and monastic compounds as funds allowed, adding new dormitories as their membership increased or the fashion in monastic sleeping arrangements shifted from common rooms to individual cells.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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Two teams of employees from Magnet were given just two days each to help fit a new kitchen and decorate the common room at the Robert Ogden School at Thurnscoe, near Barnsley.
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The smell of laser printers pushed into overheated exhaustion perfused from a few common rooms.
Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri
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Jaded juniors signed in, dumped their belongings in dormitory common rooms, and gallivanted out to Prospect Avenue.
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They can move to the common room and find other entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts exactly like them.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was sitting in the common room in my home-dyed beechnut brown dress, my suitcase next to me, when Mother Albertina came to take me to the depot.
Half Broke Horses
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He writes of religion unforcedly practiced: prayers by most, kneeling and facing Mecca-ward in the common room, while a few quietly occupied themselves otherwise.
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Soil for the grass over the common room adds to the thermal inertia of the whole.
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The lobby was right near the entrance to the building, so I assumed the common room would be similarly close.
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No one thought of disputing his title to the great leathern chair on the “cosiest side of the chimney,” in the common room of the Wallace Arms, on a Saturday evening.
A Legend of Montrose
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At present the College is unenclosed and has seen repeated thefts most notably from the College laundry and the Junior Common Room.
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Percy, who disapproved of what he termed their childish behavior, didn't spend much time in the Gryffindor common room.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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Her mind is sharp, and as she sits in a common room, hearing her 1948 recording of ‘Vissi d' arte’ on the phonograph, she remarks how beautiful it is, without a trace of either regret or egotism.
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The literature indicates that an ideal drug consumption facility is made up of three sections: a clinical area for injecting, a well-ventilated area for freebasing or chasing the dragon, and an adjacent common room.
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The painting will now take pride of place above the mantelpiece in the common room at the centre.
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What you should know Two big studies have proved a point you might have learnt in the school common room.
Times, Sunday Times
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I almost choked on the tandoori chicken, then proceeded to finish it off in haste and headed to the Hostel 9 common room.
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The atmosphere is of a provincial university common room.
Times, Sunday Times
