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
Johnson said he helped Arias-Lopez move several times, most recently a few years ago into a rooming house off Georgia Avenue where another man who attended the church also lived.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023
At a rooming house, for example, tenants didn’t need to buy sheets and towels, dishes, or furniture.
From Slate • Jul. 17, 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
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
