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

Wakened the first night by creaking boards and roving flashlight, she sat up, saw the new roomer, asked what he was doing.

From Time Magazine Archive

She told me she had only one other roomer, a quiet gentleman who worked nights and whom I should probably never see.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin