flatmate

Example Sentences

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Keating has enlisted the help of an old flatmate, Louise, with whom he shared digs during the early days of her group Eternal.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

Phoebe Hunt, 18, said she heard screaming and rushed out to find her flatmate with "a live scorpion in a bag on her boots".

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2024

He played a sports talk radio host in Go On; a sports arena manager in Mr Sunshine; and a slovenly flatmate in The Odd Couple.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2023

His flatmate, Odion Eboigbe from Nigeria, was with him, pulling others through the wreckage of the mangled vehicle - an electric-powered bus whose batteries are thought to have caught fire.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2023

“My flatmate doesn’t know that I’ve lost my job. So I go into London, as usual, and I go to libraries, to job hunt, to work on my CV.”

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins