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hostel

[hos-tl] / ˈhɒs tl /
NOUN
lodging
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The department has ordered canteens, hostel kitchens and midday meal suppliers to obtain proper licences, and banned the sale of food high in fat, sugar or salt within 50m of schools.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

That night, in a hostel catering to pilgrims, I redid our GPS map to join the Henro route the next day in Kochi.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

Eyewitnesses told local media that another building beside the hostel had also collapsed.

From BBC Sep. 6, 2026

Since then, I’ve corresponded with Nimblewill Nomad, the record holder and caretaker of a hostel at Flagg Mountain, the start of the Pinhoti Trail in Alabama.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

Before that she had been staying at a youth hostel.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

It’s church bells; bunk beds in 15-euro hostels; and some grand cities but also lots of tiny towns that exist because people with backpacks keep arriving.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

They were soon joined by young, adventurous backpackers, who filled hostels and traveled on the cheap.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

There are dozens of accommodation options too, from hostels to brand new luxury getaways advertising the area as Morocco's hidden gem.

From BBC May 24, 2026

The first U.S. case of Andes virus actually occurred in January 2018, in a woman who had stayed in cabins and youth hostels in the Andes region of Argentina and Chile.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2026

Billy had heard from a nurse that children who had had the operation were often taken to hostels further south, which might explain how Tony Makarios came to be wandering in the wild.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

Her parental father and his family retinue, large and small, married and unmarried, were hosteled on the 12th floor of the Waldorf.

From Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' by Douglas (Douglas N.) Hay

When “Should I Stay or Should I Go” blasted from the sound system, it summarized my ambivalence toward the hostel — and about the haute hosteling concept in general.

From New York Times Apr. 26, 2013

Created last year, the place represents a subtrend in haute hosteling: an offsite annex of swish private rooms set up by an established traditional hostel — in this case the Violeta Hostel.

From New York Times Apr. 26, 2013

In fact he devoted a whole chapter of his guide to hostelling.

From BBC Apr. 2, 2018




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