How to Use foyer in a Sentence

foyer

noun
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  • The foyer has a coat closet and leads to a long hallway.
    — Jenny Xie, Curbed, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The music room welcomes at the front of the house, just off the foyer.
    — Krissa Rossbund, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2021
  • That grand piano in the foyer, the cello in the entryway, the rows of bourbons in the bar?
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 16 Nov. 2021
  • In the foyer, two parallel staircases lead to the second floor.
    — Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • In the foyer, security men doused the soles of my shoes with antiseptic before buzzing me through.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • So when Marlene was shot in the foyer of her five-bedroom home in 1990, the pressure was on to find her killer.
    — Kc Baker, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
  • From a private elevator landing, the apartment is entered into a foyer and gallery.
    — Vivian Marino, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Vast, atrium-like spaces make up the main level, where a floating staircase encased in glass rises from the foyer to the second story.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Hand sanitizers sat on a table in Our Lady of Guadalupe’s foyer, and near the sacristy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Among the upstairs bedrooms is the primary suite, which includes a foyer with a morning kitchen, the sleeping area and a sitting room with corner gas fireplace.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The maître d’ facilitates these exchanges from the window of a glass-box foyer; no one leaves without a pithy reminder of the restaurant’s ninety-minute table limit.
    — The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Roughly 30 minutes before the concert was set to begin, a person fell from the seventh floor and landed on two others in the open foyer on the ground floor, police said.
    — David Aaro, Fox News, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The atmosphere was electric, and afterward the audience huddled in the foyer, some holding each other and crying, others in deep sorrow.
    — Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Double doors off the foyer open to the formal dining room, which features wood slat floors, a fireplace with a decorative wood mantel and French doors that access a stone terrace.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Place it on the front porch, in the foyer, or on the front lawn.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The subject was the pretext, the intro, the foyer to a whole house.
    — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The first stop will be the entry foyer with its tile floor.
    — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 9 Dec. 2022
  • There’s a double-height foyer that leads to the home’s main floor.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2023
  • All units have an entrance that opens to a foyer on the first floor.
    — Benjamin C Tankersley, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The foyer was lit but the rest of the living room behind him was dark.
    — Caitlin McGlade, The Arizona Republic, 19 Mar. 2024
  • There’s a roomy bath off the foyer, and one of the two bedrooms has a walk-in closet.
    — Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
  • But with so many shoes at the front door, the foyer can look a bit chaotic.
    — Sanah Faroke, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Nate wasn’t very verbose about what had gone on in the foyer.
    — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 28 Feb. 2022
  • On my way back to the lobby, I got lost in a foyer full of round tables.
    — Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
  • First, you’re welcomed by a grand foyer and great room.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 26 July 2024
  • Another might tuck it neatly in the foyer to catch the day’s mail and sets of keys.
    — Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The foyer has black-and-white marble floors and arched doorways.
    — Sarah Paynter, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The grand foyer shows off the 12-foot ceilings that also run throughout the great room and kitchen.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 16 Apr. 2022
  • The front door of the house for sale opens to a vestibule, and another door leads to the foyer and hall with checkerboard black and white floor tile.
    — oregonlive, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The foyer is often a small space, so a hall tree can be overbearing.
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 16 Oct. 2024

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