Example sentences for: attic

How can you use “attic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • His daughter Anne wrote a diary during their time in the attic, which became an international bestseller after the war.

  • It seemed to wear a thin, fuzzy coat of mildew, as if summoned for this rare duty from a cobwebbed trunk in the attic of obsolescence.

  • Holed up in his squalid attic studio in Montmartre (models complained of the dust, but Degas believed that sweeping just moved the dust around), Degas narrowed his subject matter to a few recurrent motifs--women bathing, having their hair combed, and dancing--while at the same time experimenting with a remarkable range of techniques and media (photography, tracing paper, lurid color combinations).

  • Following a survey of our wall space, plus of the attic, the garage, the basement, and every closet in the house, my wife has estimated that I own something on the order of 14,000 books--enough, she points out, that if I read one a day for the rest of my life, there's an excellent chance I won't live long enough to finish them all.

  • You can also pop in to a little room off the lobby that replicates the attic room of Alexander Bell on nearby Court Street.


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