How to Use roomful in a Sentence

roomful

noun
Definition of roomfulnext
  • The chapel opened in 2000, and is, more than anything, a roomful of love.
    — Martha Teichner, CBS News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • In a theater, though, the stories arrive out loud and land on a roomful of eyes and ears and hearts.
    — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • In it, a woman steps out of a limo to meet a roomful of nervous suitors.
    — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2020
  • But back then the thought of a roomful of writers discussing craft appealed to her.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 28 May 2018
  • Way back in my college days, my boyfriend gave me a roomful of balloons.
    — Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 5 Feb. 2020
  • As if the Seahawks didn’t already have a roomful of question marks.
    — Larry Stone, The Seattle Times, 24 July 2018
  • The remark drew a roomful of boisterous cheers at New York’s The Odeon restaurant.
    — Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2023
  • Williams has more presence and charisma in one eyebrow than a roomful of Dale Carnegie grads.
    — Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2019
  • But when Gibbons invited the roomful of some 40 people to speak, no one said a word.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Stanton was informed there was a roomful of reporters who still wanted to talk to him.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2018
  • In that time, three people were shot, another was grazed by a bullet, and a roomful of diners hit the floor.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The roomful of dear old friends and their dear old stories (and music) reminded him of time and people passed.
    — Randall De S, Redbook, 9 Dec. 2013
  • It’s not the roomful of pinball machines that catches my eye at What’s Brewing.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Mar. 2022
  • At this point, to the visible discomfort of the roomful of older men, Holmes begins to weep.
    — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Obama said walking through the classroom doors to a roomful of stunned and giggling students.
    — Miranda Green, CNN, 9 Sep. 2017
  • None of these ho-hum scare tactics has half the queasy charge of a roomful of fratty white guys leaping around Jasmine braying the N-word along to a rap song.
    — Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • When rolls came out of the oven, Rich would descend from his third-floor office and thoughtfully chew one while a roomful of people watched.
    — Mike Dang, Longreads, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Movie love may be stronger and more widespread than ever, but it can’t be captured in a night spent swooning over a handful of films and a roomful of stars.
    — New York Times, 27 Jan. 2021
  • The couple bought a roomful of toys for a raffle, according to a Courant article.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 28 Dec. 2020
  • In the gallery across the street, a roomful of Sprinkle and Stephens visual artwork and vintage erotica is on display.
    — Mary Katharine Tramontana, Teen Vogue, 30 June 2017
  • The only response from the roomful of hedge-funders was nervous laughter.
    — Michelle Celarier, Daily Intelligencer, 27 Oct. 2017
  • On a slime green runway in Paris, a roomful of lucky, lucky people were blessed with the vision of Kendall's perfectly bronzed cleavage.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 1 July 2021
  • Stephanie Thomas stared down the video camera, steeled to shed her clothes and share her deepest insecurities with a roomful of strangers.
    — Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 23 May 2017
  • Kelvin Sampson joked to the roomful of players, parents and supporters.
    — Joseph Duarte, Houston Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The attack happened in open court, was captured on a deputy’s body camera video and was witnessed by a roomful of attorneys.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The conference conveners have already put a roomful of prospects into the top of your funnel.
    — John Hall, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Perhaps the most eloquent examples are a roomful of coiled sculptures made from women’s mesh tights stuffed with kapok.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2019
  • In late April in Dmitrov, a small city near Moscow, three soldiers addressed a roomful of students aged 10 to 15, some waving small Russian flags.
    — Milana Mazaeva, New York Times, 3 June 2023
  • The accompany video, featuring a roomful of ravers in their best Y2K redux fits, was shot in Montreal.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Women who have broken the glass ceiling in the past tell stories of being the lone woman in a roomful of suits, of losing job offers over pregnancies, of being held to different standards.
    — Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024

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