rooming house
Example Sentences
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On a February day the next year, Galindo, part of a four-man raiding squad, went to a Figueroa Street rooming house to arrest Davis again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
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
At a rooming house, for example, tenants didn’t need to buy sheets and towels, dishes, or furniture.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2022
Never before auctioned, the oars were discovered decades ago by a family cleaning out the basement of a Medford, Massachusetts, rooming house they had purchased.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
If the gossip ran rampant and Ba tried to force me to marry, I could still get another job and move into some cheap rooming house.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
