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  • We did our own makeup and grabbed catnaps on green-room sofas, studio floors, or the tour bus.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • One of the nice things about this literary festival is the authors' yurt, a sort of communal green-room.

    Where Riot Is Transposed Into Play Sam Leith 2011

  • We did our own makeup and grabbed catnaps on green-room sofas, studio floors, or the tour bus.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • The home of Coronation Street was abuzz – from studio to green-room to smoking area in the car park, there was a palpable sense of excitement ahead of the first ever leader's debate.

    Nick Clegg: from hero to hate figure 2011

  • We did our own makeup and grabbed catnaps on green-room sofas, studio floors, or the tour bus.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • But in the final analysis, it's not surprising, from a psychological point of view, that after all these years of going on their air and drinking their green-room coffee, Williams should choose to ingratiate himself with O'Reilly and his viewers with that Foxy rhetoric.

    Juan Williams, axed Michael Tomasky 2010

  • When an actor I had, of course, learned all the secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for my skill.

    Sole Music 2010

  • A covered trellis, which passed through another part of the garden, and terminated with a private door opening from the right wing of the building, seemed as if it had been planted on purpose for the proposed exhibition, as it served to give the personages of the drama a convenient and secret access from the green-room to the place of representation.

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into which roguery retreated.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • He'd reconnoitered the battlefield for 18 months, attending Washington dinners, meeting big-hitting donors, learning the art of the sound bite as a contract player on CNN, sizing up the candidate competition in chance encounters and green-room chats.

    Clark's Charge 2007

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