Example sentences for: attic

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

  • 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.

  • This is a Dorian Gray brought out of the attic of memory, aging before our eyes.

  • The piece, by Whitewater experts Jeff Gerth and Stephen Labaton is mostly a useful summary of old news, but there is new ground broken: the grand jury evidence includes 1) a document found last summer in a briefcase in Vince Foster's attic that impugns Hillary Clinton's account of how she came to represent James McDougal's Madison Savings and Loan, and 2) Bill Clinton's testimony that after the initial NYT articles on Whitewater he sent an associate to see McDougal: "And I might have asked him to, you know, talk to him and see if we could have no further damaging articles, but I don't remember exactly what I said."

  • When the anxious Jessie has him voted out of the Fort Worth church that they founded together, something ruptures: Unable to comprehend his banishment, Sonny spends days and nights in his mama's attic railing at Jesus.

  • 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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