smoking compartment

Frequency: 6.58.1 per million words

A section where smoking is permitted.

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Examples (10)

  • On older trains, you could find a smoking compartment at the end of the carriage.
  • Excuse me, is this the smoking compartment?
  • The air in the smoking compartment was thick with the smell of cigars.
  • He settled into a seat in the smoking compartment and opened his newspaper.
  • A sign on the door clearly indicated it was the smoking compartment.
  • They had to walk through the crowded smoking compartment to reach the dining car.
  • If you wish to smoke, you must move to the designated smoking compartment.
  • My grandfather told me stories of long journeys in a noisy smoking compartment.
  • The railway company eventually phased out the last smoking compartment.
  • Some passengers still miss the social atmosphere of the old smoking compartment.