roomful
[room-foo l, roo m-]
- an amount or number sufficient to fill a room.
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Origin of roomful
Usage note
See -ful.
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Examples from the Web for roomful
Contemporary Examples
He did not want to tell a roomful of hard partisans that their ideology is unworkable.
A roomful of women in that room encouraged us to keep going.
Soccket Rockets: The Next ChapterSeptember 23, 2012
Getting caught on video doing it in a roomful of rich donors is downright sloppy.
A man in a crowded Colorado movie theater randomly executing a roomful of total strangers including women and children?
The Aurora Shooting Made One Prominent Hollywood Producer Too Scared to Go to The MultiplexRick Schwartz
August 26, 2012
Ramin Setoodeh went and found a roomful of adults in Jurassic Park costumes.
Historical Examples
Mrs. O'Callaghan was standing in the doorway and looking in at the roomful of beds.
The Widow O'Callaghan's BoysGulielma Zollinger
You could have heard the roomful of them catch breath together.
Little Novels of ItalyMaurice Henry Hewlett
You don't mean that I can serve that roomful of enemies in there?
We TwoEdna Lyall
What was Congress, any way, but a roomful of men whom nobody heeded?
The Critical Period of American HistoryJohn Fiske
She went up on the platform, and faced the roomful of children.
Beautiful JoeMarshall Saunders
roomful
- a number or quantity sufficient to fill a rooma roomful of furniture
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