Sentence examples for lowered ceiling from inspiring English sources

A lowered ceiling in a dining area, for instance, can be pleasant and intimate, but a lowered ceiling covering only part of the area can be most distracting.

The Bernstein Suite is perhaps the most dramatic, with itsslightly lowered ceiling adding to the drama of stepping out onto itsterraces from which one recent female guest commented, "You feel like youown Paris".

With a floor painted bright yellow, a lowered ceiling and expanses of deep-red drapes, Mr. Althoff has remade the Gladstone Gallery according to his own needs, which seem to have required less space (about a third is simply sectioned off and ignored) and an effect that is both vivid and tacky, redolent of a bygone era, even if you don't know which one.

A lowered ceiling inset with lights gave off a warm glow, illuminating the pastry cabinet with Odwalla and Naked juices, marshmallow squares and iced sugar cookies, and sandwiches of tomato and mozzarella on ciabatta, turkey and pesto on baguette, and tarragon chicken salad.

In the center of the store is a slower area for browsing and trying on shoes that retains the overall industrialized aesthetic but also has fluted glass panels, soft geometric couches and a lowered ceiling, inferring intimacy.

Fake wood paneled walls, lowered ceiling, fluorescent lights.

Also, there are big-screen televisions in the lounge and track lighting across the lowered ceilings.

Ms. Fiorina said that the latter problem was being addressed by a management shake-up, a more formal process to review investments and lowered ceilings on how much the company will invest in individual start-ups.

"What counts most now is that Russia and the United States start moving jointly or along parallel courses toward radically lowered ceilings on nuclear warheads without any holdups," Mr. Putin said before leaving Moscow.

"The original features were all behind lowered ceilings and the marble floors were covered with concrete and carpeting, so you can imagine how the building looked all done in a '70s style," Mr. de Rooij said.

In 1961, Woodlea was redecorated with modern fabrics, warm gold and forest green carpets, dropped lighting, and some lowered ceilings.