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1. Robert went over and seated himself on the broad sill of one of the dormer windows.
2. Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the letter once more.
3. The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between two blocks of shadow.
4. Two broad dormer windows looked out toward the Gulf, and as far across it as a man's eye might reach.
5. She sat up in bed, looking dreamily out through the dormer window, her naked arms pushing her naked breasts together.

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 Meanings and Examples of DORMER
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dormer
 n.  window set vertically into small gable projecting from sloping roof; sleeping-room
Classic Sentence:
1  Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the letter once more.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
2  The dormer window of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite the door, and illuminated the figure with a wan light.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY
3  As he passed one of these attics, Marius thought he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer window.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XV—JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES
4  The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between two blocks of shadow.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
5  She babbled of a low stone house with lattice windows and tulip-beds, of colonial brick, of a white frame cottage with green shutters and dormer windows.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  Two broad dormer windows looked out toward the Gulf, and as far across it as a man's eye might reach.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VIII
7  Robert went over and seated himself on the broad sill of one of the dormer windows.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VIII
8  She sat up in bed, looking dreamily out through the dormer window, her naked arms pushing her naked breasts together.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
Example Sentence:
1  In remodeling the attic into a bedroom, we decided that we needed to put in a dormer to provide sufficient ventilation for the new room.