composing room
Example Sentences
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We’d clip them to a kind of clothesline that took them down to the composing room.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024
After Monical was honorably discharged in 1958, he returned to Bloomington-Normal and, in 1960, began a 40-year career at The Pantagraph, working in the composing room, assembling ads and the articles.
From Washington Times • Nov. 15, 2020
On the ensuing tour, he loosened up, particularly when we wandered around the composing room, where the next day’s paper was literally being put together, piece by lead-type piece.
From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2020
He wrote: “The glory of the composing room is gone forever, and soon will be but a reminiscence as it fades before the everyday, practical typesetting machine.”
From Economist • Mar. 30, 2018
At four thirty, all the copy would go to the composing room, where the text was set into lead type for the printing presses in the basement.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
