How to Use boardinghouse in a Sentence

boardinghouse

noun

• Julie Adamo is Lulu, a young friend of Meg’s who drops into the boardinghouse.
  — Marcus Crowder, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2018
• Hines, 24, walked up to the ramshackle boardinghouse and gently knocked.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2020
• The action takes place over a 24-hour period, from one morning to the next, and never moves from the boardinghouse.
  — Marcus Crowder, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2018
• The rear of the boardinghouse faced the Lorraine Motel across Mulberry Street.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Here rest 350 victims, many of whom were killed in the Peshtigo Co. boardinghouse owned by Ogden.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2021
• His widow, Sarah, lived in the house for 36 years, running it as a boardinghouse during and after the Civil War.
  — Ann Banks, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Aug. 2020
• After the Diddens moved away from Capitol Hill, the house was turned into a boardinghouse.
  — Kathy Orton, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
• Quite a career for a girl who grew up in a boardinghouse with her grandmother on the wrong side of Hollywood.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 6 May 2018
• The sound of gunfire outside their cheap boardinghouse makes their children cry.
  — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2021
• Holzer also said Lincoln was stripped of his clothes to check for other wounds when he was brought to the boardinghouse, yet the man in the picture is wearing a shirt.
  — David Bauder, Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
• This former boardinghouse clings to the side of the mountain, sneering at gravity.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2022
• Gwynne Dacres is a copywriter who moves into a shady boardinghouse during the pits of the Great Depression.
  — Molly Young, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
• Driscoll lived in boardinghouses to avoid cooking and house cleaning.
  — Elaine Louie, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• The humble farming locale included a few amenities such as boardinghouse that opened in 1845 and a gristmill on the Five Mile Creek.
  — Alyssa Fernandez, Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2020
• In May 1925, he was overcome by a gas leak in an Indianapolis boardinghouse.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 22 Jan. 2021
• Her father was later a caretaker and her mother a laundress and the owner of a boardinghouse.
  — David Stout, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2021
• Some lived in sailors’ boardinghouses along the Hudson River.
  — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 2 June 2023
• He was overcome by a gas leak in an Indianapolis boardinghouse in 1925.
  — Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 23 July 2021
• The party is elsewhere in the boardinghouse where our heroine, Esther, a shy, plain woman of 35, sits in her room sewing corsets and camisoles for socialites and streetwalkers.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
• There are several reasons for this: the setting is along a very picturesque street, in a building that was once a boardinghouse that the original Mrs. Wilkes took over in 1943.
  — Brekke Fletcher, CNN, 18 May 2017
• The boardinghouse is gone, and soon the bank building that stands in that location will be taken down, too, for a new residential building.
  — Matt McKinney, Star Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
• Standing alone in his spotlight, Hudson played the dozens of gamblers, drifters, drinkers, and saints who surrounded him growing up in a 1960s New York boardinghouse.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2021
• There’s a classic scene where her boardinghouse girlfriends, in preparation for the big night, teach her to slurp spaghetti without spattering the sauce.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2020
• The playful artists often painted directly on the boardinghouse's doors and wall panels, much as their French peers had done in artist colonies like Giverny and Barbizon.
  — Nicholas Derenzo, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023
• In the Elmhurst area of Queens, for instance, many immigrant workers live in crowded boardinghouses where the virus is spreading rapidly.
  — Nicole Daniels, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2020
• After her parents divorced, Miss Ramey moved to Cincinnati, where her mother ran a boardinghouse.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 4 July 2017
• The hotel, once a gentlemen's boardinghouse, is a paean to louche classicism, stocked with antiques and eclectic bric-a-brac that could have been scooped up on a European Grand Tour.
  — Betsy Blumenthal, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2023
• The story primarily follows Sunja, the only child of a boardinghouse owner, over the course of the 20th century.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2022
• The Duke Street property passed through many owners, serving as a hospital and boardinghouse.
  — Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
• But amid the Depression, his father had trouble finding a good job in the automotive trades, and his mother opened a boardinghouse to help meet expenses.
  — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024