HALL in a Sentence

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For HALL, below is one of 270 sentences:
She walked out of the kitchen ahead of them and pausing in the hall raised the lamp at arm's-length, as if to light them up the stairs.

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 Meanings and Examples of HALL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hall
 n.  a large room for meetings, concerts, or other events
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She was almost the last to leave the hall, and she stood looking uncertainly about her as if wondering why he did not show himself.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  She walked out of the kitchen ahead of them and pausing in the hall raised the lamp at arm's-length, as if to light them up the stairs.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  Scarlett heard Mammy's lumbering tread shaking the floor of the hall and she hastily untucked her foot and tried to rearrange her face in more placid lines.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  Mammy emerged from the hall, a huge old woman with the small, shrewd eyes of an elephant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  Mammy waddled back into the hall and Scarlett heard her call softly up the stairwell to the upstairs maid.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  It had always been so soothing to Scarlett to hear her mother whisper, firmly but compassionately, as she tiptoed down the hall: "Hush, not so loudly."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  Then feet shuffled up the back-porch stairs and into the passageway leading to the main house, stopping in the hall just outside the dining room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  "Well, bring in the bride," said Gerald, and Pork, turning, beckoned into the hall to his wife, newly arrived from the Wilkes plantation to become part of the household of Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  As the boards shuddered under her weight, the soliloquy she had been muttering in the front hall grew louder and louder, coming clearly to the ears of the family in the dining room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  Pork took a long spiller from the mantelpiece, lit it from the lamp flame and went into the hall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
11  Throwing it across her arm, she crossed the hall quietly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  She pushed open the door, listened and heard Mammy's heavy tread in the downstairs hall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  She paused in the hall to speak to friends and to greet India who was emerging from the back of the house, her hair untidy and tiny beads of perspiration on her forehead.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  Scarlett stood on the landing and peered cautiously over the banisters into the hall below.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  Scarlett had made certain that Melanie was lying down on the bed with Honey and Hetty Tarleton before she slipped into the hall and started down the stairs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
16  Many unearthed cultural relics are set forth in the exhibition hall.
17  He was punctilious about being ready and waiting in the entrance hall exactly on time.
18  I heard the fan clicking and the bubbling of the hot-water kettle in the silence of the hall.
19  Her latest project is a film based on the life of a nineteenth-century music hall star.
20  The hall has a fine acoustic.
21  The hall was packed out for Menuhin's first concert.
22  They massed in front of the city hall.
23  Hang your overcoat on the peg in the hall.
24  Several hundred students crammed into the lecture hall.
25  A dark narrow passage led to the main hall.
26  Many people came to the meeting in the hall.
27  Morning assembly is held in the school hall.
28  Having heard the notice, the reporters all squeezed into the hall.
29  Several pretty models ankle through the hall.
30  The quality products were neatly laid out in the exhibition hall.