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rooming house

noun as in house renting out rooms

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After detectives interviewed Boyd in May 2014, he said that he had watched Gibson beat the 24-year-old to death in a rooming house he owned, the affidavit states.

Since the 2016 presidential election, Lateefah Knight, 33, has lived at a Philadelphia shelter, in transitional housing, in an apartment, in a rooming house and with family and friends.

When I returned to the rooming house in the late afternoon, I found a handwritten note pinned to the front door.

From a second-story window of a rooming house covered with red brick-patterned tarpaper comes the sound of a blues harmonica.

Robinson signed on for $63.25 a month and moved into a rooming house.

He ran all the way back to Lucy's house, threw down the key he had got from her, and then went to his own rooming-house.

He had been going to report to Webber when he had run into that golden field in the rooming-house hallway.

She swayed back from his close glance and ran up the first three steps of her rooming-house.

At Lulu's rooming-house they lingered again, talking in subdued tones on the brownstone stoop.

At that time he was living in one room (rear) of a shabby rooming house in Thirty-ninth Street.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rooming house, such as: boardinghouse, lodging house, and room rentals.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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