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
They’ve secured a permit from the county government and are working with area landowners and the town’s only public lodging house to find space for a potential deluge of EDM hobbyists in camper vans.
From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2019
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
They reached the port at the river’s mouth to find every hotel, every lodging house, every private room commandeered by soldiers.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.