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There’s a host of supporting characters, too – a roomful of writers, for instance, hilariously bridging the generation gap with their common love of comedy even as they clash over cultural values.
‘Modern Family’ creator returns to form with hilarious ‘Reboot’ | John Paul King | September 22, 2022 | Washington BladeTyler George stood up in the 132-year-old building he was raised in, surrounded by what is typically one of the most dangerous snowpacks in America, and stared at a roomful of backcountry skiers who were there to learn how not to die in an avalanche.
A Renowned Colorado Avalanche School Faces a Death on Its Watch | jversteegh | February 28, 2022 | Outside OnlineProsecutors unveiled their line of attack in Holmes’s criminal fraud trial, which began Wednesday in front of a jury and a roomful of reporters, curious members of the public and a handful of her supporters and family members.
Elizabeth Holmes’s defense says mistakes, not malice, led to collapse of Theranos | Rachel Lerman, Gerrit De Vynck | September 8, 2021 | Washington PostWaiting there was a team of scientists with a roomful of lab equipment to measure the precise physiological toll of their exertions.
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.
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 Multiplex | Rick Schwartz | August 26, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTRamin Setoodeh went and found a roomful of adults in Jurassic Park costumes.
A reception—a roomful of people shouting at each other three inches away—is comical enough.
The Voice of the Machines | Gerald Stanley LeeShe was a woman who could have commanded a whole roomful with it, and no one would have wanted a word from her.
Questionable Shapes | William Dean HowellsHe forgot his anger, forgot Conal, forgot the roomful of dancers stampeding merrily, forgot Pat Glynn and his music.
The Pioneers | Katharine Susannah PrichardIt is on this plan that Edison has now constructed a phonograph which delivers its reproduction to a roomful of people.
Heroes of the Telegraph | J. MunroPaul swore softly to himself, for he had no wish to share his good fortune with a roomful of people.
High Noon | Anonymous
British Dictionary definitions for roomful
/ (ˈruːmfʊl, ˈrʊm-) /
a number or quantity sufficient to fill a room: a roomful of furniture
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