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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

The Brooklyn Museum owns a diary kept by Miss Schenck as a teenager along with roomfuls of other artifacts from her family’s ancestral homes.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2016

The family had consulted with other auction houses; one proposed simply dismantling and selling the Shahns’ roomfuls of Nakashima custom drawers, sliding doors, cherry floorboards and a rough-edged oak window seat.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2010

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