In a moment there was no more evidence of gambling than is afforded by anyroomful of men, so easy was it to hide the paraphernalia, or, rather, lack of paraphernalia of stuss.
Through the crack in the door, I could see the startled roomful of players of all degrees in crookdom, in the thick, curling tobacco smoke.
That evening he and Amy dropped in at Number 14 Hensey and found a roomful of fellows in excited discussion of the game.
The man who waited studied the roomful with a disdainful smile, with eyes sparkling like steel points.
The face the roomful saw now as they pushed to the outer air, and which turned on the flocking crowd, bore anything but the slinking look they had been used to see on the face of Hugh Stires.
He gazed over the heads of the silent roomful to the simmering street where Devlin, with the aid of a supporting arm, was staggering into the saloon in which his humiliation had begun.
Indeed he was conspicuous among that roomful of poorly dressed men.
He sat down at his desk and looked through the little window, by means of which he could, glancing up from his ledger, spy on the roomful of workers.
They saw only a roomful of ardent young Democrats.
If, when he had been playing the piano to a roomful of friends in New York, a man dressed as a laborer had shambled in, wouldn't he have felt a moment of involuntary scorn?
His amusement on arriving may be pictured when he found that the other guests consisted of a roomful of wounded Tommies.
I suppose if I could buy you a roomful of silver like that old tureen, you wouldn't mind.
Almost unconsciously the Lens was written and edited down to his standard, as a roomful of adults will amiably prattle so as to carry along a child in the conversation.
There was no truer dignity beneath the ruffles and periwigs of their ancestors in the Maske picture-gallery than that of the rude, blunt fellow who could face modestly and yet kindly a whole roomful of well-dressed Londoners.
And the Duke sat down in a corner, with his knife, his tobacco, and his cutty-pipe, as shy as a great boy in a roomful of girls.
Still he did leave early, and at five-thirty was ushered into a great roomful of chattering, gesticulating, laughing people.
She steadied herself with her hand on the table once more, and made answer boldly, “I think I could more easily face a roomful of people I’d never seen than sing before two in the parlour of the inn here; that seems less personal.
If ever you’re to face a whole roomful of people, you must be able first to come in upon the platform without all this silly fuss and hang-back nonsense.
Behind her distress two impressions went to and fro--Fraulein and the raccommodage party sitting in judgment and the whole roomful waiting for cancer.
They made their way back to the street through a long low roomful of men drinking at little tables.
She understood that the man whom she had accused of betraying his friend had faced a roomful of men in his defence, and on the very ground now under discussion, and she repented of what she had done.
After supper, when she is no longer receiving, the hostess is free to talk with her friends and give her attention to the roomful of young people who are actually in her charge.
It is on this plan that Edison has now constructed a phonograph which delivers its reproduction to a roomful of people.
A sheet of tinfoil formed the record, and the delivery could be heard by a roomful of people.
Before the next evening they had finished the whole roomful of flax.
Yet it seemed, at the same time, that Verena needed little help, for it was more and more clear that her eloquence, when she stood up that way before a roomful of people, was literally inspiration.
Who could be so foolish, so ill-advised as to scream those agitating words in a roomful of girls and boys already keyed up to a high pitch of excitement?
He had one of those delightful, hearty laughs that ring out in a whole roomful of voices.
A word or look of warning is at most times sufficient now to keep a roomful of 75 children in order except on rare occasions.
Her eyes had a slight smile of secret sympathy and amusement as they flew over the roomful of people dancing.
Only she and Arthur were alive in that roomful of dead people.
Never again mention ladies' names before a roomful of men, or, by God, you'll get a lesson from some one some day that you will remember to the end of your life!
But a fellow who would talk like that before a roomful of men about a girl--his own girl--My God, Tiny!
At the end of the period mentioned he placed himself behind the bar and faced a roomful of grinning men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roomful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
