boardinghouse
Example Sentences
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Eventually, Frieda leaves and moves into Gulls Nest, a seaside boardinghouse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
Jones, who was so brilliant in Daniel’s production of “King Hedley II” at A Noise Within is just as luminous here as the calming force at the boardinghouse.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2025
Years later, she expressed regret about the way she had depicted a Black character who lives at the boardinghouse with the protagonist.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024
Schwartz herself accomplishes something similar across the short subsections of each chapter, slowly and elegantly assembling a sprawling boardinghouse out of the twigs and branches of sometimes little-studied lives.
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2023
Chasing after the president, Mary Todd Lincoln, followed by Clara Harris and Major Rathbone, with Laura Keene trailing close behind, burst into the boardinghouse.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
