How to Use room in a Sentence

room

1 of 2 noun
  • Is there enough room to turn the car around?
  • In the backyard there is enough room to run and play.
  • The sofa takes up too much room.
  • There's no more room on the computer disk to save the file.
  • We're running out of room in the office.
  • There's only room for five people in the car.
  • Cigarette smoke filled the room.
  • He rents rooms to college students.
  • I could hear the TV from the next room.
  • Don't eat too much. You should leave some room for dessert.
  • Scott was asked to leave the room.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026
  • Trust us, save room for dessert.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Two rooms, three scenes, one night.
    — Bob Bonniol, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Make room for a blast from the past.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
  • That her smile could light up a room.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 10 May 2026
  • Your head is as messy as your room is.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
  • There were a couple in the room.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • No one ran into the room and shot me.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Ask kindly for time so joy has room.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The room lit up and the crowd parted.
    — Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 13 Feb. 2026
  • My mom thought any place with more than six rooms was a tourist trap.
    — Amanda Peet, New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The rooms were not designed around that.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In this room, these women are peers.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 24 May 2026
  • There's plenty of room on the ground!
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The living room is full of sheetrock.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2025
  • What are the room options here?
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Apr. 2026
  • And of course there were lots of Brits in the room.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The room was thick with silence.
    — Loree Sutton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • His parents cleaned out the room above the garage.
    — Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
  • But there’s always room for more.
    — Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026

room

2 of 2 verb
  • Leaving doors open lets cool air flow from room to room the way it’s supposed to.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 23 June 2026
  • The bed fits into a narrow backyard and leaves room to walk around it.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Sat next to each other on the bus, roomed together.
    — Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 8 May 2026
  • There will always be more to learn and room for improvement.
    — Jasna Hodžić, Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
  • There is always, always room around these parts to embrace your grays.
    — Wendy Sy, Allure, 28 July 2022
  • Gifts were delivered room to room as patients looked on.
    — Ray Campos, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025
  • His father also roomed with Smart.
    — Jeff Sentell, AJC.com, 12 June 2026
  • Scott drifts from room to room in his shades, thanking staff and talking through the bones of the place.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2026
  • And while this year’s fair-food dance card is already pretty full, there’s always room for more.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2019
  • That leaves room for air in the atmosphere above to subside down to the surface.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Wander from room to room upstairs and down, each furnished with unique décor.
    — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Advocates for more sanctions say there’s still room to up the pressure.
    — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Of course there's always ways to improve and room for improvement.
    — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Atlanta’s star guard complains, says Heat isn’t giving him and his guys room to shoot.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
  • That leaves room for debate about what really happened.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The tables were sticky and the ladies room down some rickety stairs, dimly lit, and felt like the size of a postage stamp.
    — Kate Stone Lombardi, Good Housekeeping, 25 June 2020
  • Each home would house one person unless the occupant wants to room with someone.
    — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The second, and the one that really caught our attention, has two rows and room for four.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Bring the cake to room temperature before serving straight from the pan.
    — Cathy Barrow, charlotteobserver, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Allow the cake to cool for 15 minutes in the pan, then turn it out onto a wire rack to cool to room temp.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Mar. 2026
  • We are immediately being whisked from room to room as our doctors on the day shift get to work.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Head to room one to experience the vibrating dance floor.
    — Zoey Goto, Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2026
  • At the same time the teacher runs to room 132 to retrieve her cell phone and walks back to the exit door.
    — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 27 May 2022
  • The side rooms off the main gallery contain playful areas that everyone from kids to grown adults will enjoy.
    — Jenny Hughes, The Spruce, 9 Apr. 2026
  • There’s always room for improvement and always room to be better — in all aspects of life.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2023
  • There is, however, still room for improvement.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2025
  • There should be no exceptions for the life of the mother, that gives dishonest doctors room to make false claims.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Great care was paid to the seamless flow of patrons from room to room as well as the excellent lighting of the holdings.
    — Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The Wall Street investment bank says stocks like Chewy have plenty more to room.
    — Michael Bloom, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Back then, the friends would joke about rooming together someday and having a closet big enough for all of their clothes.
    — Teen Vogue, 30 May 2019

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