How to Use greenroom in a Sentence

greenroom

noun
  • While the band set up, my dad and I were in the greenroom alone.
    — Dessa Dessa Tanya Pérez Alec K. Redfearn, New York Times, 12 June 2024
  • The greenroom at Largo is a small shrine to great talent.
    — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
  • After an hour or so, Karol finally emerges from the greenroom.
    — Isabelia Herrera, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2023
  • When the students returned to their greenroom, some of the evening’s other speakers were there.
    — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • But Antonoff was already gone—back in his greenroom, mussing his hair, getting ready to take the stage.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • Some tested out the comfy art deco chairs, while others admired the greenroom on site.
    — Isiah Magsino, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Andrews said as Baldwin burst through the greenroom doors, wearing a gray T-shirt.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
  • Or to stand in a hallway spraying Febreze after a client was caught smoking pot in the greenroom of a late-night talk show.
    — Stephanie Clifford, Marie Claire, 20 Sep. 2019
  • There will also be a greenroom, and there are plans for a separate performers’ entrance.
    — Vulture, 30 June 2023
  • The terminal’s majestic atrium area could serve as the greenroom.
    — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 4 May 2023
  • The conversations in the greenroom after the show are more relieved than euphoric.
    — Longreads, 13 July 2018
  • Kardashian West spilled the beans on Snapchat, in a series a videos filmed from the backstage greenroom and set.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Leif Garrett was asked not to return to the show after injuring himself in the greenroom.
    — Ashley Spencer, Vulture, 28 June 2021
  • The real reward, however, is the time spent beforehand in the greenroom.
    — John Brabender, WSJ, 30 May 2018
  • Sitting in the greenroom of the pop-up shop that bears his name, Victor examines the racing gloves in his hands more closely.
    — Dan Rys, Billboard, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The master bedroom upstairs will serve as a lounge where the kids will hang out on filming days, and one guest room will double as a greenroom whenever there are guests on the show.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 7 Apr. 2020
  • While the crowd gathered, Pastor Witt addressed his team in a greenroom cluttered with filing cabinets.
    — Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 28 June 2023
  • Artists will have a larger greenroom and dressing rooms, and staff will have office spaces and an additional box office to complement the main one on campus.
    — Abigail Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2023
  • Now he’s settled in for an interview with The Envelope in a greenroom at 30 Rock with an icy-cold drink.
    — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2022
  • Olivier Rousteing is sitting in a makeshift greenroom, talking with a group of business founders trying to reimagine the future of France.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Sitting in the Chelsea greenroom of her show, an explosion of pink confection, the 58-year-old is reflective and sanguine.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Students and Rollins staff members came in droves to the campus greenroom starting Monday to gawk, giggle and hold their noses up at the putrid-smelling flower.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
  • At five minutes to broadcast—to the second—Oprah bursts from her greenroom, briskly crosses the dark of the wing, and walks onstage to greet and warm up her audience, seated in the round.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2024
  • And when the Target crew finally escaped the stuffy greenroom and faced their investors in person, the reception didn’t get any more sympathetic.
    — Fortune, 20 Aug. 2019
  • More than anything else, this interview gives greenroom energy, the vibe when all the bon vivants are performing for each other, overlapping jokes and trying to one-up the other.
    — Vulture, 27 May 2022
  • The greenroom crowd was then escorted to their seats, and we were ushered to the dark place behind the curtain—Tom Hanks, his assistant, and I.
    — Ann Patchett, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • At noon, Driver was clutching a cup of coffee in a greenroom at the Walter Reade Theatre, before a press conference.
    — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Backstage after the show, Grohl and Billie Eilish and other assorted band insiders mingled in the greenroom.
    — Lizzy Goodman, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Charlie went over to the chalkboard hanging on the wall beside the hallway—the one that led to the backstage greenroom, as well as Odette’s office and occasional dungeon—and started half-assing some cocktails.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Last year, in a greenroom with a few hours to kill before a Bleachers performance, Antonoff sat on a couch, fiddling with an orchestral remix of a Taylor Swift song on his laptop.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022

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