Definition of roomful
: as much or as many as a room will hold;
also
: the persons or objects in a room
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Tim Boyle, chief executive officer of Columbia Sportswear, confessed to a roomful of FBI agents this week that his grandfather likely immigrated here illegally from Ireland.
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Calhoun and Burbank, now both retired with roomfuls of plaques, were barely into their 20s while at WAKY and up for anything.
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But back then the thought of a roomful of writers discussing craft appealed to her.
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On Saturday, Valdez and Castro spoke in San Antonio to a roomful of voters about their choices between a moderate who can appeal to Republicans and a progressive candidate who was expected to excite the base.
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At an Organization of American States event in 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry had promised a roomful of officials that the U.S. would end its interventionism in Latin America.
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In the museum itself, the director Jorge Fernandes introduced us to the collections, which include a roomful of Wilfredo Lam’s astonishingly dynamic, spiky works.
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The roomful of dear old friends and their dear old stories (and music) reminded him of time and people passed.
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Canada gifted the couple a roomful of antique Canadian furniture (including a four-poster bed in maple, two wooden candle stands, and a small drop-leaf desk).
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First Known Use of roomful
1671
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: the amount of people or things that are in a room
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