carrel

Example Sentences

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He shares his remote refuge, a forgotten carrel on the 9th floor, with a woman with a distinct resemblance to Ozeki herself.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2021

Dr. Fenno officially retired in 2003 but maintained a campus office — and a study carrel in the library — until his late 80s.

From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2020

Where I, a Baltimore Sun reporter, was once crammed into a carrel alongside such venerable Times reporters as Lizette Alvarez, Alison Mitchell and Eric Schmitt, there are file cabinets.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2017

I sat in a remote study carrel in the library’s stacks, next to a narrow, dim window with an interior view, and idled through the brittle pages in bound volumes.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015

He tells himself that it’s the stress—she’s been studying for her orals, holed up in her carrel at the library until nine o’clock most nights.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri