OFFICE in a Sentence

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For OFFICE, below is one of 420 sentences:
Since that day, she only saw him formally, once a month, when Uncle Peter drove her to his office to get the housekeeping money.

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 Meanings and Examples of OFFICE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
office
 n.  a room assigned to specific persons in a commercial organization
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Ethan set about unloading the logs and when he had finished his job he pushed open the glazed door of the shed which the builder used as his office.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Ethan's arts were soon exhausted, and after an embarrassed pause he wished Hale good day and opened the door of the office.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  He has his office in Worcester, and comes over once a fortnight to Shadd's Falls and Bettsbridge for consultations.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  "Oh, he can read law in Judge Parmalee's office over in Fayetteville," answered Brent carelessly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  Scarlett had kissed her mother good-by in the little office where she sat before the tall secretary with its paper-stuffed pigeonholes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  Here along Peachtree Street and near-by streets were the headquarters of the various army departments, each office swarming with uniformed men, the commissary, the signal corps, the mail service, the railway transport, the provost marshal.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  Since that day, she only saw him formally, once a month, when Uncle Peter drove her to his office to get the housekeeping money.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  Crowds formed at the depot, hoping for news from incoming trains, at the telegraph office, in front of the harried headquarters, before the locked doors of the newspapers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  Scarlett, Melanie and Miss Pittypat sat in front of the Daily Examiner office in the carriage with the top back, sheltered beneath their parasols.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  Somewhere, Ashley was fighting, perhaps dying, and the newspaper office was the only place where she could learn the truth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  The side window of the newspaper office opened and a hand was extended, bearing a sheaf of long narrow galley proofs, smeared with fresh ink and thick with names closely printed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
12  Without finishing their breakfasts they drove down to telegraph Ashley's colonel, but even as they entered the office, there was a telegram from him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
13  Melanie could hardly be dragged away from the telegraph office and she met every train hoping for letters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
14  She had fainted at the telegraph office and Rhett, passing by and observing the excitement, had escorted her home.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  Even that General Sherman himself had used this room, Mother's office, for his headquarters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  I'm staying late at the office tonight.
17  I suppose head office expects us all to troop down to London for this meeting.
18  There's been a bit of trouble at the office.
19  I try not to let my work spill over into my life outside the office.
20  The president will remain in office until the official handover in April.
21  I didn't leave the office until eight o'clock last night.
22  She rounded upon him in the office,charging him with telling lies about her.
23  She was mimicking the various people in our office.
24  He was often out of the office on various missions.
25  I fell victim to the office bully.
26  There's a smashing view from her office.
27  The politician was ousted from office by a vote from members of his own party.
28  The office is closed at the weekend.
29  She liked the head in her office with whom she stood in.
30  No wonder the firm makes a loss; the office is terribly overstaffed.