rooming house
Example Sentences
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This explosive, eye-opening work came from Ivy League professor Desmond moving to a trailer park and rooming house in a poverty-stricken part of Milwaukee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
She lived in a rooming house where people helped one another get by, lending money as they got paid on different days, making sure she could feed her daughter, she said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022
In a seedy rooming house apartment, as one man rehearses his three-card monte spiel — “watch me close, watch me close now” — Abraham Lincoln arrives with Chinese takeout.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
At a rooming house, for example, tenants didn’t need to buy sheets and towels, dishes, or furniture.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2022
Joe gave the same alibi Rose did: on the night of May 21, 1921, they had been together in Pawnee, seventeen miles southwest of Gray Horse, and had stopped at a rooming house.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
