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How to use room in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Room means an opportunity or scope (to do something). Example: “Go to your room!”

Examples of room by meaning

nounSpace for something, or to carry out an activity.

  • He explains they have enough room to stand and lie down, points out the "little cup to brush our teeth", and the place where they pray.2010 August 27, Jonathan Franklin, The Guardian

nounSufficient space for or to do something.

  • There are major disagreements within the Coalition and politicians always want to retain room for manoeuvre.2010 September 12, Roger Bootle, The Telegraph

nounA place; a stead.

  • A ram was accepted as a vicarious sacrifice in room of the royal victim.1900, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, 2nd edition, volume 2, page 37

noun(One's) bedroom.

  • Go to your room!
  • She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
  • The street lamps shine into that room.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

nounThe people in a room.

  • The room was on its feet.
  • He was good at reading rooms.
  • It was fun to watch her work the room.

nounAn IRC or chat room.

  • Some users may not be able to access the AOL room.

nounA quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.

  • He say, “I’ll give you all the credit you want, but you got to pay the interest on it.” I told him, “Give me three rooms worth and charge whatever you want.”1985, August Wilson, Fences

verbTo reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.

  • Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street.
  • It was Robert Ackley, this guy that roomed right next to me.1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 25
  • But, then, running into the guy who rooms across the hall from me—in the Paris Metro?1971 June 13, Paul Goldberger, “On the Champs — Elysees: ‘Hey, Aren't You the Girl Who Sits Across From Me in Abnormal Psych?’”, in The New...

More sentences with room

  • All the beds of the hotel are currently occupied, but we have a free room tomorrow.From the entry currently
  • Looking at him as he came into the room, I took him for his father.From the entry take
  • He poisoned the mood in the room with his non-stop criticism.From the entry poison
  • If you don't clean your room, I'll have no choice but to ground you.From the entry ground
  • She's probably hiding in her room, she always does when we have company. She's our little mouse.From the entry mouse
  • You haven't done jack. Get up and get this room cleaned up right now!From the entry jack
  • It's getting quite stuffy in this room: let's open the windows and air it.From the entry air
  • The temperature in the room dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold.From the entry temperature
  • Chat turned to whisper when the boss entered the conference room.From the entry boss
  • Have you had the talk with Jay yet? I found a condom in his room.From the entry talk
  • After we broke up, I retreated to my room for a good cry.From the entry cry
  • Save electricity by turning off the lights when you leave the room.From the entry save
  • From the moment she entered the room, all eyes were drawn to her.From the entry draw
  • She mouthed a warning to me as the teacher entered the room.From the entry mouth
  • I entered the room, at the far end of which was a small table.From the entry which
  • Her heart was racing as she peered into the dimly lit room.From the entry race
  • With an air of disgust, she stormed out of the room.From the entry disgust
  • I'm going to burn the stove now so the room will start warming up.From the entry burn
  • The old silver lends an air of elegance to an otherwise drab room.From the entry lend
  • The room is light when the Sun shines through the window.From the entry light
  • There was no sink in the room so we spat out the window.From the entry spat
  • I look round the room quickly to make sure it's neat.From the entry round
  • I'm having a major crisis trying to wallpaper the living room.From the entry crisis
  • The room was small, but it had good symmetry and flow.From the entry flow
  • The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.From the entry augment
  • I’m not hungry, but I’ll still manage to find room for dessert.From the entry still

Meaning of room

  1. noun An opportunity or scope (to do something).
  2. noun Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
  3. noun A particular portion of space.

Full definition of room

Questions about room in a sentence

How do you use room in a sentence?
Room is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “Go to your room!”
What is a short sentence with room?
“Go to your room!”
What does room mean?
Room means an opportunity or scope (to do something).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: room (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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