OFFICE in a Sentence

office

 n.  an administrative unit of government

 n.  a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities

1  Ethan set about unloading the logs and when he had finished his job he pushed open the glazed door of the shed which the builder used as his office.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV

2  Ethan's arts were soon exhausted, and after an embarrassed pause he wished Hale good day and opened the door of the office.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV

3  He has his office in Worcester, and comes over once a fortnight to Shadd's Falls and Bettsbridge for consultations.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII

4  "Oh, he can read law in Judge Parmalee's office over in Fayetteville," answered Brent carelessly.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I

5  Scarlett had kissed her mother good-by in the little office where she sat before the tall secretary with its paper-stuffed pigeonholes.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V

6  Here along Peachtree Street and near-by streets were the headquarters of the various army departments, each office swarming with uniformed men, the commissary, the signal corps, the mail service, the railway transport, the provost marshal.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII

7  Since that day, she only saw him formally, once a month, when Uncle Peter drove her to his office to get the housekeeping money.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII

8  Crowds formed at the depot, hoping for news from incoming trains, at the telegraph office, in front of the harried headquarters, before the locked doors of the newspapers.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV

9  Scarlett, Melanie and Miss Pittypat sat in front of the Daily Examiner office in the carriage with the top back, sheltered beneath their parasols.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV

10  Somewhere, Ashley was fighting, perhaps dying, and the newspaper office was the only place where she could learn the truth.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV

11  The side window of the newspaper office opened and a hand was extended, bearing a sheaf of long narrow galley proofs, smeared with fresh ink and thick with names closely printed.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV

12  Without finishing their breakfasts they drove down to telegraph Ashley's colonel, but even as they entered the office, there was a telegram from him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI

13  Melanie could hardly be dragged away from the telegraph office and she met every train hoping for letters.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI

14  She had fainted at the telegraph office and Rhett, passing by and observing the excitement, had escorted her home.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI

15  Even that General Sherman himself had used this room, Mother's office, for his headquarters.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

1  Our office is above the hairdresser's.

2  Employees must on no account make personal telephone calls from the office.

3  The office was really humming with activity.

4  Please address all letters to this office.

5  As a matter of routine, the sheriff's office there had been notified of the change of address.

6  I am going to take the parcel to the post office this afternoon.

7  Look straight ahead and you'll see the post office.

8  They wore the standard uniform of the well-to-do American out of office hours.

9  An American President's term of office is four years.

10  He will announce tonight that he is resigning from office.

11  The Health clinic is relying on volunteers to run the office and answer the telephones.

12  Job seekers should apply at the personnel office.

13  The matter then goes to Justice Department superiors in the office of the deputy attorney general.

14  Tickets are available from the box office.

15  Don't leave your bag in the office when you go for lunch.