room
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
The club was loud, crowded and alive in the way only a queer room can be when the world outside has made everyone inside feel disposable.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
In his speech he promised to give the public "more breathing room", and said he would set out a new 10-year plan for Britain by the end of this year.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
“He came into the room in character and he scared all of us,” Condal says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
In some instances, hotels made up for the shortfalls by hiking room rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Smells of oil, ash, gunpowder, and tobacco fill the room.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
They were informal mutual-aid networks, grief rooms and information exchanges.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Right on the Place des Lices, the Hôtel Les Palmiers offers 25 rooms in a traditional Provençal building set in a garden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
"My job is to make sure their rooms have been made when they return after flying," he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Inside, neatly made-up rooms for visiting priests line warmly lit halls that lead to a chapel where the 400-year-old ritual takes place.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
“Today I’ll be taking you into some of our special rooms, like the latest rare-book room and our collection of city maps. Before we get started, do you have any questions?”
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
I roomed with Stephen Hughes that season but Matt Upson and Alex would come to our room to play PlayStation games when we were in hotels for away matches.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
All seven members roomed in a single dorm room until 2016.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
While working on the reboot, I roomed with the associate producer, Marcy Carriker, who married Tom in 1990.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
The elder Holliday’s brother, Josh, is the head coach at Oklahoma State and roomed with Billy Gasparino when they played together there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2023
Miss Bertha roomed upstairs at the Whisnants’ house, so I figured Mr. Billy had put her up to it.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Four months later, co-chairing the February 2020 National Prayer Breakfast, Suozzi and Moolenaar referred to rooming together.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
Moreover, it’s not just young people fresh out of school who are rooming with others to keep their housing costs low.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2025
He’s implemented several team-building exercises, including moving players into on-campus dorms for the opening week of training camp and rooming them with guys from other position groups.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
“Bunker Hill is old town, lost town, shabby town, crook town,” the noir master Raymond Chandler wrote, long before the neighborhood’s old rooming houses were demolished.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2023
Since he retired, Scooter has been living in a rooming house in Cape May, New Jersey.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
