How to Use chat room in a Sentence

chat room

noun
  • In the chat room In AOL chat rooms in the 1990s, text ruled.
    Sheera Frenkel, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
  • From Team Fortress 2 chat rooms, the meme spread to Reddit and then on to 4chan.
    Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 17 Jan. 2020
  • In the network’s Telegram chat room, Guy Zyskind laid out the stakes.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Below the chat room is a box with video of Hinton's face.
    Wired, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The couple met in high school in 2006, in a Yahoo chat room about hip hop.
    Amanda Chicago Lewis, Wired, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The Times learned about the larger chat room from a Discord user.
    Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Thomas and his fans share photos of their pets in online chat rooms.
    Shira Ovide, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
  • In his tip to the police, Thiele quoted McLeod from a private chat room for his fans.
    Marisa Kabas, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2022
  • Facebook pages and chat rooms focused on swaps have popped up.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 7 May 2018
  • Then a friend found what appeared to be a prison mug shot of him in a Russian online chat room.
    Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The pair met in 2003 when a mutual friend added them to a Yahoo chat room to help with a coding project.
    Kylie Robison, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Just think, on a calm summer night the living room with family and friends would be the true chat room.
    Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Police said Flores-Pavon had met the 25-year-old man in an online chat room.
    Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 4 June 2019
  • That’s what Robby and his career-woman paramour are each doing in the chat room.
    Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Hosts have control over who can speak in the chat room, with a maximum of 10 people speaking at the same time.
    Coral Murphy Marcos, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The more lively a chat room, the more Robinson and the cast knew a particular sketch was hitting its stride.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The two had met in an online chat room for fetishists, authorities have said.
    Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2019
  • The emergence of online chat rooms making huge wagers in the market calls to mind the message boards of the dotcom era.
    Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • Around the same time, another Proud Boy posted a meme to the chat room mocking rape victims.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 21 June 2021
  • Discord servers work the same as an online chat room (but with both text and voice channel support).
    Yec, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • In 2013, two friends who met in a chat room created Dogecoin as a joke.
    New York Times, 15 May 2021
  • The reenacting of a dead child’s Internet chat room bullying from 1996 is the origin of the ghost.
    Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Viewers in the Super Chat room can pay to have their comment pinned to the top of the chat room or otherwise highlighted.
    Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, 22 June 2018
  • But hackers could have dug into the plumbing powering the Pet Chat app's chat room.
    Alyssa Newcomb, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The couple met on vk.com, a Russian Facebook of sorts, in a chat room for people who are hearing impaired.
    Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Users can also subscribe to public channels—kind of like a chat room but for voice—where groups of people can talk.
    Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018
  • The crowd actually was going wild, but the only way to tell was by reading the comments in the online chat room.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Every launch of the game boots players into a live public chat room, with no option to disable this.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Twitch users pay $5 a month to subscribe to a channel, which gives them special emojis, badges and chat room privileges.
    John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Even while in a relationship, Matt continued to linger in chat rooms.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 10 May 2018

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