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

“My mother ran a rooming house on West 77th Street in the 1920s,” Mr. Storch told the Wall Street Journal in 2012.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022

While living in a rooming house on Manhattan’s East 67th Street, he met a blond public school teacher named Marion Raymond who was finishing her master’s thesis.

From Slate • Jul. 4, 2022

While Melvin Glover continued to make music with another member of the group, Scorpio, Mr. Glover was soon working a temp job and living in a modest Bronx rooming house.

From New York Times • May 4, 2022

Since he retired, Scooter has been living in a rooming house in Cape May, New Jersey.

From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli