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
All five of them shared a single room in a Ballard boardinghouse next to the restaurant where her father worked.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2023
She rents a boardinghouse room barely long enough to fit her outstretched body.
From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2022
She still occupied rooms in a nearby boardinghouse.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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