Sentence examples for front vestibule from inspiring English sources

Rarely does one enter a home beyond the front vestibule; if one is invited in, it is good form to demur.

The house, called a three-quarter cape, has a front vestibule and a parlor, a fireplace, its original wide pine-plank floors and an attached summer kitchen.

And out of the cold tumbled four Sudanese boys -- all of whom had resettled as refugees over the last several years -- their tall youthful bodies spilling into the apartment's small front vestibule.

All sorts of women had come, women from all phases of K.K.'s life, and more kept arriving, clicking through the front vestibule in high heels, spilling out into other rooms.

"I went downstairs," his fourth wife, Mary Welsh Hemingway, reported in her 1976 memoir, "How It Was," saw a crumpled heap of bathrobe and blood, the shotgun lying in the disintegrated flesh, in the front vestibule of the sitting room".

The piano area, with its sheet music and brass candlesticks on top of the upright, belonged to his mother; the kitchen, with its warping linoleum and black stone sink, to Granny; the front room, with its sagging sofa and dusty view of the neighbors, to Grampop; and the front vestibule and door to Daddy, who was always going out or coming in.

"Officer Santiago claimed that he was able to see Bradley's suspicious behavior even though he was inside a police van parked across the street, twenty or thirty feet from the door, separated from Bradley not only by the street but by the windows of the front door, a vestibule, the windows of an inner door, and the hallway," Judge Scheindlin observed.

Much like the front steps and vestibule of the Bronx apartment building where Amadou Diallo was fatally shot by the police last year, that small section of the park has entered the city's civic geography, attracting tourists, politicians, activists and the news media.

They have attributed any interruption in the shots to Officer Edward McMellon, who was one of the two officers who opened fire first, falling backward off the stoop in front of the vestibule of Mr. Diallo's apartment building on Wheeler Avenue, leading the other officers to believe that Officer McMellon had been shot and to redouble their fire.

Judge Scheindlin wrote dryly in her ruling: "Officer Santiago claimed that he was able to see Bradley's suspicious behavior even though he was inside a police van parked across the street, 20 or 30 feet from the door, separated from Bradley not only by the street but by the windows of the front door, a vestibule, the windows of an inner door, and the hallway".

To reduce the steep proportions of the front stairs, the entry vestibule was lowered 14 inches, an operation that had ripple effects throughout the front of the structure.