LOBBY in a Sentence

lobby

 n.  a group of people who try to influence legislation; hall; room; a large entrance or reception room or area

1  After giving some directions to Ali, who stood in the lobby, the count took Albert's arm.

The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 53. Robert le Diable.

2  de Monte Cristo either in the lobby or on the stairs.

The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 88. The Insult.

3  In pronouncing these words Albert had raised his voice so as to be heard by those in the adjoining boxes and in the lobby.

The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 88. The Insult.

4  After the second act I left Lena in tearful contemplation of the ceiling, and went out into the lobby to smoke.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III

5  The railroad corporations would be so effected they would in self-defense lobby to have the separate car law repealed.

Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII

6  A man he took for the proprietor was standing in the lobby, and he went up to him and tackled him for a job.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30

7  He had only then come from the library; and, in passing through the lobby, had noticed our talking and been attracted by curiosity, or fear, to examine what it signified, at that late hour.

Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII

8  The bustle in the vestibule, as she passed along an inner lobby, assured her that they were already in the house.

Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43

9  Starting and looking up, she saw, across the lobby she had just reached, Edmund himself, standing at the head of a different staircase.

Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII

10  That cavern, which was called the choir, communicated with the cloister by a lobby.

Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT

11  After which the curtain again fell, and the spectators poured forth from the theatre into the lobbies and salon.

The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 53. Robert le Diable.

1  The group tried to lobby the bill through.

2  You can look down from the mezzanine into the ground floor lobby.

3  Mary is in the lobby of Asian Hotel.

4  I'll meet you in the entrance lobby.

5  The film star held court in the hotel lobby.

6  The anti-smoking lobby has steadily gained ground in the last decade.

7  The anti-tobacco lobby suspects that the tobacco industry is behind the weakening of many of the draft treaty provisions.

8  Members troop into lobbies at the beck of a party leader as though they have no minds to use.

9  Small businesses have lobbied hard for/against changes in the tax laws.

10  Carers from all over the UK lobbied Parliament last week to demand a better financial deal.

11  In the Senate, every proponent of the universal health care measure lobbied to gain additional support for the controversial legislation.

12  They are actively lobbying for the bill.

13  These businessmen have been lobbying a bill through the Senate.

14  After a bruising, five-month selection process, the list of contenders was cut to six serious candidates, with the chief executive job nearly going to Ford Motor Co CEO Alan Mulally, an outsider favored by investors lobbying for radical change.