- a variation of boardinghouse.
boarding house
Example Sentences
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The play takes place almost entirely within a boarding house in Pittsburgh in 1911.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
“Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” arguably the finest work in August Wilson’s 10-play series chronicling the African American experience in the 20th century, is set in a boarding house in Pittsburgh in 1911.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2025
Recognising Nigeria's deeply religious society, Charterhouse also permits parents to take their children home from the boarding house for Sunday church services, with the expectation that they return by Monday morning.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2025
Upstairs from the bar in the boarding house, lost souls confess their secrets to a prairie witch named the Antidote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025
He ended up living in a single room in a Philadelphia boarding house, surrounded by books, papers, and bones.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
