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
Georgia Kemp, a cook at the Elks Club, invited him to move into her rooming house at 20th Avenue and East Madison.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 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
His mother, Sally, was a telephone operator who later had a jewelry store and ran a rooming house.
From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2022
Maybe, I think, I should just walk around for a while and then go back to the rooming house.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
