How to Use war room in a Sentence

war room

noun
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  • The beds, the safe rooms and the central war room were torched.
    — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The war room, as some refer to it, is on the 22nd floor of City Hall.
    — Steve Lopez, latimes.com, 15 June 2019
  • But, in my mind, where's the war room on the cost of living, right?
    — NBC News, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Rhaenyra takes command of the war room for the first time as queen.
    — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
  • How has that been in the war room for you guys battling on those two guys?
    — Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2021
  • And not just the Oasis world, but the world of the (corporate) IOI war room.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 23 Mar. 2018
  • This time, a war room wouldn’t be enough for Kliavkoff.
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The smaller war room was in the Map Room, on the ground level of the White House residence.
    — Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker Washington Post, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
  • Which hasn’t always been Jerry’s strong point in the war room.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • But for head coach Bill Belichick’s war room, those past stops on the roadmap have helped set up the next one.
    — Oliver Thomas, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Mike McCarthy has taken a seat in the war room as the Cowboys head coach for the last three drafts.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • This is the kind of breaking news that makes Jerry Jones give Stephen an elbow to the ribs in the war room.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Please lock this draft dodger up in his war room in the basement in the White House without his phone for the next two months.
    — Star Tribune, 8 Sep. 2020
  • And there was excitement in the Cowboys’ war room when it was known Overshown was the pick.
    — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • On the afternoon of June 30, Marks and his staff gathered in the war room for the opening hours of free agency.
    — Chris Mannix, SI.com, 9 July 2019
  • The debates rage on, both in Detroit’s draft war room, around the league and on social media.
    — Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2023
  • And at the last moment, the Philadelphia 76ers phoned Phoenix’s war room once more.
    — Jake Fischer, SI.com, 23 June 2018
  • None of them could recall seeing such a moment in an NFL draft war room.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • As the camera rolled 7 1⁄2 months ago, the GM looked across the war room at the Golden Knights’ selections, each name boxed and checked on a grease board.
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The city also lacked a war room to triage emergent cases—a gap that soon proved glaring.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 23 June 2021
  • Snap turned a hangar-like building in Venice, Calif., into a redesign war room.
    — Maureen Farrell, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2018
  • The first clue was the sight of John Fassel, the Cowboys’ special teams coach, high-fiving the Jones family tree in the war room.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • But most of all, Allen loved being in the war room with team executives on draft night.
    — oregonlive.com, 21 June 2019
  • Three big, big deals added up to three big, big moments for Boras’s clients, in what was hardly a war room.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2019
  • Luhnow hung up and surveyed his war room one final time.
    — Ben Reiter, SI.com, 1 Oct. 2019
  • An East Coast farm kid fresh out of rock school, Langelaan’s on a three-man exploration crew, the kind feeding the screens back in the war room.
    — Genesee Keevil, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2018
  • There is no war room, no grand strategy, none of the behind-the-scenes organizing the GOP used to counter the Mueller report.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2019
  • In their war room, members scour WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook for pleas for help.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 6 May 2021
  • The aides told Politico that there is no plan for a war room or response operation from within the White House.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
  • Rehearsing this level of detail in a war room exercise prepares the team to think it through and answer quickly.
    — Ram Charan, Fortune, 7 May 2024

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