railroad apartment
Example Sentences
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“I was living in a railroad apartment in Queens and just was like, ‘This is it.’”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2024
The family had initially entered shelter after tripling up in a two-bedroom railroad apartment with seven other people, including Pedro’s mother who was pregnant with him.
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2018
My family lived in a railroad apartment on the second floor of a two-story building.
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 25, 2015
Obama would “often spend the evening holed up in my office in the back of our railroad apartment; what I considered normal often left Michelle feeling lonely.”
From Slate • Oct. 5, 2012
The landlord called our new home a railroad apartment: each room leading to the next, like railway cars.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
