Sentence examples for cloakrooms- from inspiring English sources

They were essentially palaestrae, or open-air, square-shaped sports grounds surrounded by colonnades in which were set up the necessary services: cloakrooms, washstands, training rooms, massage rooms, and classrooms.

The Democratic judicial filibusters of the past several years lacked any of the accoutrements of the great marathons of the Senate's past — no men in suits dozing on cots in the cloakrooms, no recitations of poetry (or recipes) to pass the hours in debate.

There are no cloakrooms.

Senators could not hide in cloakrooms but would have to face the public on camera to hold up a judge's confirmation, a budget resolution or a bill.

On the House floor, Republicans and Democrats must speak from separate lecterns and when they step off the floor to use their phones, drink coffee or read newspapers, they do so in separate cloakrooms.

His policies — like health care, saving the auto industry, raising mileage standards and "Race to the Top" in education — were discrete initiatives in the right direction, but each was fought separately, often in Congressional cloakrooms, and never synthesized into a whole that voters could fully appreciate or be inspired to get out of their chairs to support.

In a cloakroom nearby, an English girl was doing her hair; she dropped her comb in terror.

Each floor in each cylinder was reserved for a special function: bedrooms, living rooms, office, kitchen, cloakroom.

"Zaha hasn't finished the cloakroom yet," apologised the manager, as we bundled coats and bags under our wobbly table, rather ruining the effect of all that stark whiteness.

Asked what she would do with her balloon hat, she replied: "I've got to check it into the cloakroom - but it's quite robust so it should be all right".

At the front of the main sitting room, reclaimed double doors open out on to the entrance hall, a cloakroom and a new staircase in the side extension.