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
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
We were hardly talking then, sitting down to our evening meal like boarders in a rooming house, reciting the usual, drawn- out exchanges of familiar news, bits of the day.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
