antechamber
Example Sentences
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It was January 1998 and Robert Bourgi was waiting to see the Gabonese president Omar Bongo, in an antechamber at his seaside palace in Libreville.
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2024
Dr. Reeves proposed that the tomb was, in fact, merely an antechamber to a grander sepulcher for Tutankhamun’s stepmother and predecessor, Nefertiti.
From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2022
As darkness blanketed the city, the only spectacle left was in parliament, where teenagers and young men bedded down for another night on the mattresses they have laid out in the grand antechamber.
From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2022
The paintings on display beyond the antechamber play on themes of spectacle, public perception and sleight of hand.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2022
They stopped dead at the sight of the girl and the tiger standing together in the glittering, lamplit antechamber.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
