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A car was rammed into the bay window, exposing the room inside.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Leaving by the front door, with its sight lines into the dining room, was a regrettable error.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
She instantly claimed any room she entered and then made sure there were snacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
That leaves little room for officials to redesign envelopes, update computer systems, train workers and upload voter data if the courts suddenly allow the restrictions to take effect.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
I’m standing right in front of the window, and I can feel Aunt J tugging on my arm to pull me to the back room.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Moonshot’s roughly 300 employees sometimes wear slippers in the office and step into conference rooms named after bands and musicians including Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Queen, Prince and Bob Dylan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The company now runs a 125,000-square-foot, three-soundstage facility with roughly 220 employees producing rotating sets — restaurants, school hallways, a courtroom, jail visitation rooms — designed to mimic a small town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
“When we got divorced, we talked about making rooms for the kids here and having them here sometimes, but it’s just such a long drive,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
An investment of £110m, which will come from existing budgets, will be used to convert unused office space, laundry rooms and storage space into cells, the MoJ said.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
There, butlers opened doors and ladies’ maids took wraps and bonnets into elegant dressing rooms.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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
Schallock, then 27, roomed with Berra and was tasked with picking up Berra’s daily delivery of “funnies” as they called them.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
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
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
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
Back in the fall of 2007, Knox was a 20-year-old student from Seattle, studying in Perugia and rooming with a young British woman named Meredith Kercher.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2025
She lived in the same run-down area of seedy rooming houses as Raffo, whom she had befriended on the streets.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
Soon the rooming houses, small apartment buildings and ramshackle Victorian homes there gave way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
Since he retired, Scooter has been living in a rooming house in Cape May, New Jersey.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
