roomful
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With two nuns on guitar, one with a tambourine and one on drums, a roomful of pilgrims started singing about West Virginia in a pileup of accents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Kate Movius moved among a roomful of Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies, passing out a pop trivia quiz and paper prism glasses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
A roomful of fans now have a story to tell about the night.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025
He likens the effect of these chemicals on water-born bacteria to offering hungry humans a roomful of fattening fast food.
From BBC ● May 10, 2025
The roomful of guests at the ceremony applauded.
From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
It was presented as tough medicine to the city, as well as to roomfuls of shouting parents so angry that at times they were restrained by security.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024
In turn, Moore clearly has developed that thing often present in, say, military children: the capacity to go comfortably into roomfuls of strangers.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2022
Hospital systems and insurers — which have become huge, Hydra-like enterprises — now all employ roomfuls of coding-program graduates to perform these tasks.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2017
He told aides to thrash out big ideas for the book, and he envisioned gathering roomfuls of experts.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2011
And yet, the house did seem to have filled itself, to have drawn out of the family roomfuls of activity.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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