You could have heard the roomful of them catch breath together. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
(Soundbite of laughter) Ms. RAITT: ... having a roomful of kids. From Wordnik.com. [Blues and Conversation with Bonnie Raitt] Reference
You could almost feel a whole roomful of operatives screaming, "No!". From Wordnik.com. [Era Of Good Speaking] Reference
"I'm a little tired and a little cranky," he told a roomful of aides. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Debates] Reference
"I've kinda shied away from this," he told a roomful of firefighters. From Wordnik.com. [Son of fallen D.C. firefighter takes a step beyond years of pain] Reference
Now, here was a whole roomful of the orderly stuff of settled life. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams of Reality, 5] Reference
"That's enough, Jennie!" as a giggle arose from the roomful of girls. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
(Not me; I'll take the roomful of Biblical literalists every single time.). From Wordnik.com. [Varia: Red and Blue Churches] Reference
A "grouchy" foreman can give blues and indigestion to a roomful of factory girls. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
Kelly Dietrich told a roomful of 12 - to 17-year-olds one recent sunny afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [B] Reference
Mrs. O'Callaghan was standing in the doorway and looking in at the roomful of beds. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
Finally, in 1904, the official Salon d'Automne admitted a whole roomful of his pictures. From Wordnik.com. [A World Of Apples] Reference
He had one of those delightful, hearty laughs that ring out in a whole roomful of voices. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
That is a roomful of women and girls screaming at the top of their lungs about being independent. From Wordnik.com. [With Sales Lagging, Lilith Fair Faces Question Of Relevance] Reference
Without blinking, Carl did that thing he does when he wants to pinion a roomful of decision makers. From Wordnik.com. [The Confession] Reference
Paul swore softly to himself, for he had no wish to share his good fortune with a roomful of people. From Wordnik.com. [High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn] Reference
TBC sits in the center of a posh roomful on a chairlift that is visibly too small to be comfortable. From Wordnik.com. [Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)] Reference
When you meet a roomful of her patients, they seem at first to have little in common beyond an ailment. From Wordnik.com. [Healer Of Hearts] Reference
This is a question Alexis Martin Neely asked a roomful of women entrepreneurs last week in Los Angeles. From Wordnik.com. [Tabby Biddle: Are You a Woman Doing Business Like a Man?] Reference
Within two minutes, the Osbournes had a roomful of jaded reporters howling like a hyperactive laugh track. From Wordnik.com. [Television: Before They Were Tv Stars] Reference
The work ranges from live blond models posing in pantyhose to a roomful of raw, painted-on-the-spot nudes. From Wordnik.com. [Santa Fe Raises Its Sites] Reference
Her color deepened as for a second she felt herself the object of the silent gaze of this roomful of people. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference
When he enters a nightspot in the summer resort, "he finds a whole roomful of enablers," says a family friend. From Wordnik.com. [Sobering Times] Reference
CRIMINAL MATHEMATICIAN and CRIMINAL PHYSICIST are sitting at a small dinner roomful tableau, as if before a mealtime. From Wordnik.com. [Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)] Reference
The subdued ripple of astonishment that had passed over the roomful of girls told her that here was no ordinary pupil. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
Crist, a smooth pol, easily threaded the roomful of Clintonites, talking of his good relations with Florida Democrats. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Lautenberg, gaga for Gaga] Reference
After the Panama invasion, he dazzaled a roomful of senators by delivering a masterful briefing entirely without notes. From Wordnik.com. [Max Thurman: The 'Robocop' General] Reference
Treasury Department official who had just addressed a roomful of bankers on the administration's financial reform efforts. From Wordnik.com. [Rep For Foreign Bankers Physically Restrains HuffPost Reporter From Questioning Treasury Official] Reference
It may seem like you're playing in a roomful of noisy, talking people, but there's always someone somewhere who's listening. '. From Wordnik.com. [Reflections of a 'Piano Girl'] Reference
He felt the hollow in his stomach and the trembling in his knees that disturbed him whenever he entered a roomful of strangers. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
I called down Dr. Beecher, Professor Allen, and two or three other clergymen, who, together with my husband and family, made a roomful. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
The smile we saw on the podium was gone, replaced with the kind of scowl that only a roomful of journalists can put on an athlete's face. From Wordnik.com. [Hedrick vs. Davis] Reference
A shiny playbill with an infantryman, cooked and dressed like a roasting board (with appliance in mouthful?), is brought into the roomful. From Wordnik.com. [Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)] Reference
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