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
The resident who has lived at the boarding house the longest is Bynum, and Mr. Santiago-Hudson, who has both appeared in and directed Wilson’s plays, gives the most rounded and captivating performance.
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
They had run a boarding house in Coatesville, but abandoned the business and left town as the scandal garnered national attention, she said.
From Seattle Times • May 20, 2024
That afternoon of her arrival she sat in the front parlor of a boarding house waiting for a man named Franklin B. Sanborn.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
