lodging house

Example Sentences

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On good ones, they found a lodging house and raced upstairs, hoping to claim a catnap before that evening’s gig.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2024

At issue appears to be the legal definition of short-term rentals versus a bed-and-breakfast or lodging house.

From Washington Times • Mar. 25, 2019

Everything else loomed large—the condition of the tenements, the perils of the ghetto, the moral dangers of the kitchenette, the risks presented by too many bodies forced into the cramped rooms of the lodging house.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 9, 2019

But according to public records, it was always a lodging house and was called the Prince Hotel as early as 1927.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2011

While the terms of partnership were being drawn up, he stayed at a cheap lodging house on Fish Street.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes