roommate

Example Sentences

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In the lounge, where Pike and his roommate host dinner parties, icicle lights hang from the ceiling and cases of Coca-Cola are stored in a corner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

The roommate, Dave Schaller described the client - a large man who he said looked like "an ogre" and drove a first-generation Chevrolet Avalanche, a unique vehicle.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

That’s what Auf der Maur’s roommate told her the night she came home after thinking that she had offered a sincere but thoughtful declination to the suggestion that she become the bass player in Hole.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

“He was a random roommate and we never had a conversation with him once,” Hopper told The Times in an interview.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

Her new roommate looked just like the snotty girls who had made high school miserable: pretty, beautifully dressed, somehow at ease with the world, and that first night she had cried herself to sleep.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng