Wondering how to use Scullery in a sentence? Below are 9 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as room.
Scullery in a sentence
Scullery meaning
A small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done.
Synonyms of Scullery
Using Scullery
- The main meaning on this page is: A small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done.
- Useful related words include: room.
- In the example corpus, scullery often appears in combinations such as: scullery maid, the scullery, from scullery.
Context around Scullery
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scullery
- In this selection, "scullery" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, maid, fizzing and folks stand out and add context to how "scullery" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as a scullery maid at and either a scullery maid or. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scullery" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scullery
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
She went to work as a scullery maid at a boarding house to support them. (15 words)
The Scullery of Deedle-Dawdling is an elite club for gallus dribblers and swaggering patter-merchants. (16 words)
With Mrs. Warren these girls feel, 'Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day?'.. (24 words)
The height o’ sophistimacated modernity fan Mary Berry wis a quine, it squats in the corner o’ her scullery fizzing and popping, wi’ a cathode ray tube the size o’ a Fiat Panda, and dial for manually changing the channels ye need twa hands tae turn. (46 words)
Of uncertain origin, probably from Old French escouvillon (dishcloth, mop), diminutive of escouve (broom), from Latin scopa (broom) or from scullery (a small kitchen), from Old French escuele (dish), from Latin scutella, diminutive of scutra (pan). (36 words)
Sarah takes pity (“I have a thing for the weak,” she says, ominously) and she gradually works her way up from scullery maid to Sarah’s deputy to Sarah’s successor between the Queen’s sheets. (36 words)
Example sentences (9)
The height o’ sophistimacated modernity fan Mary Berry wis a quine, it squats in the corner o’ her scullery fizzing and popping, wi’ a cathode ray tube the size o’ a Fiat Panda, and dial for manually changing the channels ye need twa hands tae turn.
The Scullery of Deedle-Dawdling is an elite club for gallus dribblers and swaggering patter-merchants.
Of uncertain origin, probably from Old French escouvillon (dishcloth, mop), diminutive of escouve (broom), from Latin scopa (broom) or from scullery (a small kitchen), from Old French escuele (dish), from Latin scutella, diminutive of scutra (pan).
Sarah takes pity (“I have a thing for the weak,” she says, ominously) and she gradually works her way up from scullery maid to Sarah’s deputy to Sarah’s successor between the Queen’s sheets.
A restaurant meal includes the cost of the food, and the labor costs for the cooks and servers and scullery folks, plus rent, taxes, power, advertising and a myriad of other factors.
In his household she served as a lowly servant, likely either a scullery maid or washerwoman.sfn No effort was made to teach her to read and write and she remained illiterate throughout her life.
She went to work as a scullery maid at a boarding house to support them.
The swimming pool, the scullery, squash court 7, the archived Ninth and Tenth Doctor's console room, and Amy and Rory's quarters were ejected in the episode "The Doctor's Wife".
With Mrs. Warren these girls feel, 'Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day?'..
Common combinations with scullery
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: