VESTIBULE in a Sentence

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1. They drove up to the gloomy old house on the Vozdvizhenka and entered the vestibule.
2. Having released Mavrushka, Natasha crossed the dancing hall and went to the vestibule.
3. On reaching the vestibule Natasha saw a tall figure in a fur coat unwinding his scarf.
4. She squeezed Carol's hand, said something unintelligible, stumbled up into the vestibule.
5. At one end of the trench, steps were cut out and these formed the entrance and vestibule.

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 Meanings and Examples of VESTIBULE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
vestibule
 n.  any of various bodily cavities leading to another cavity (as of the ear or vagina)
 n.  a large entrance or reception room or area
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  At one end of the trench, steps were cut out and these formed the entrance and vestibule.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVI
2  Having released Mavrushka, Natasha crossed the dancing hall and went to the vestibule.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX
3  They were quietly dropping melted wax into snow and looking at the shadows the wax figures would throw on the wall, when they heard the steps and voices of new arrivals in the vestibule.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI
4  Hussars, ladies, witches, clowns, and bears, after clearing their throats and wiping the hoarfrost from their faces in the vestibule, came into the ballroom where candles were hurriedly lighted.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI
5  They drove up to the gloomy old house on the Vozdvizhenka and entered the vestibule.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII
6  Joseph, his valet, handed him his sabretache and saber, and they all went out into the vestibule.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII
7  Gerasim and the porter, who had followed Makar Alexeevich, stopped him in the vestibule and tried to take the pistol from him.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXVII
8  The vestibule was filled with the discordant sounds of a struggle and of a tipsy, hoarse voice.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXVII
9  Suddenly a fresh sound, a piercing feminine scream, reverberated from the porch and the cook came running into the vestibule.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXVII
10  On reaching the vestibule Natasha saw a tall figure in a fur coat unwinding his scarf.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XI
11  She revolted from the complacent ugliness of Mrs. Peniston's black walnut, from the slippery gloss of the vestibule tiles, and the mingled odour of sapolio and furniture-polish that met her at the door.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
12  A few sumptuously-cloaked ladies were already gathered in the marble vestibule, and in the coat-room he found Van Alstyne and Gus Trenor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
13  Ten minutes later the two men passed out together between the gold-laced custodians of the threshold; but in the vestibule Stepney drew up with a last flare of reluctance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
14  He must have felt guilty, everybody agreed, for as the train left town, a farmer saw him standing in the vestibule and looking out.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  She squeezed Carol's hand, said something unintelligible, stumbled up into the vestibule.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
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