roomer
Example Sentences
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With so many people living in every rooming house, "Even if the law required it, how could landlords build enough shelters for every roomer?" he wonders.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2022
Simple, comfortable shelter for three adults, for my mother and me on the first floor, and for a roomer on the second floor, with a maximum of privacy for each.
From Slate • Oct. 19, 2021
He lives in my skin like a disreputable roomer in a cheap boarding house.
From Salon • Apr. 1, 2013
A fellow roomer took Iris' side, and Rupe ordered her out, too.
From Time Magazine Archive
A roomer down the hall began a patient, continuing cough against the quiet night.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
