How to Use flatmate in a Sentence

flatmate

noun

• He’d been battered to death with a hammer — which was also buried — by his flatmate, the mural painter.
  — Longreads, 15 June 2018
• His new flatmates explained EDM to him, and suggested he try it.
  — Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2017
• Jewish sports fans who listen to hip-hop are the Platonic ideal of a flatmate.
  — The Economist, 19 July 2019
• Her flatmate, Maria, or Masha, used to groan when Pomorina stopped the car to pick up yet another dog.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2020
• His life spirals out when his flatmate moves out, leaving his collection of plants, his dog, a cardigan and a ghost.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 9 Feb. 2022
• As these videos told it, the thunder god just took it easy and tried to live a normal life, including living in a small Australian apartment with a somewhat twitchy flatmate.
  — Patricia Hernandez, The Verge, 14 Aug. 2018
• The new book begins with the bizarre murder of an ambitious young trainee doctor, Sasha Johnson, who was attacked while walking through Russell Square on her way to meet her flatmate.
  — Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2023
• Get creative and try making bats, pumpkins, Frankenstein, or your flatmate in marshmallow form.
  — Spoon U, Teen Vogue, 14 Oct. 2017
• The RentCafe poll found that at least 50 percent of the time, men argue with flatmates in legal fields, marketing and advertising, and construction.
  — Danielle Braff, chicagotribune.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• Subjects in the study were then presented with two fictitious flatmates and asked to rate each on a scale of one to seven based on the same set of demographic and personal characteristics.
  — The Economist, 19 July 2019

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024