smoking room

Example Sentences

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At the fitting, I had asked if she was in a smoking room.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2025

Those Dutch costumes have, alas, disappeared into history’s mist, as has the smoking room and, for the most part, the movies.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2021

It has been said that if a member came into the smoking room and announced that he had just shot the course in under par, some other member would ask him, “Why?”

From Golf Digest • May 5, 2020

“I never view it as ‘liberal versus conservative,’” he said, as voters wound their way up to a smoking room that had become the campaign event’s unofficial after-party.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2018

We looked around the gentlemen’s smoking room to see if a cat’s eyes glowed from under the furniture, behind the damask drapes.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck