Sentence examples for vomitory from inspiring English sources

Sentence The word 'vomitory' is correct, but it is not commonly used in written English.
It is used to refer to a room or passage in a theatre or large building used for people to enter or exit quickly. For example: "The vomitory was swarming with people trying to get to their seats before the play started."

Dictionary

vomitory

noun

The entrance into a theater or other large public venue, where masses of people are disgorged into the stands; a vomitorium

synonyms

emetic

vomitive

Exact(5)

"If seated in the bleachers follow painted directional lines to the vomitory".

The New Yorker

Somebody restrained the author - possibly the author's other self - from adding, "And if you don't know what a vomitory is, the hell with you.

The New Yorker

We have looked up the word in a large dictionary and would set down that a vomitory is something used by anybody leaving an amphitheatre or a tier of seats; it is an exit.

The New Yorker

By Russell Maloney and Harold Ross The New Yorker, May 2 , 1942P. 9 "If seated in the bleachers follow painted directional lines to the vomitory".

The New Yorker

The New Yorker, May 2 , 1942P. 9 "If seated in the bleachers follow painted directional lines to the vomitory".

The New Yorker

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