How to Use rooming house in a Sentence
rooming house
noun- After losing his job, he moved to a cheap rooming house.
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Domingo took us to his home, a two-room house on the top of a hill.
—David Begnaud, CBS News, 26 July 2019
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The next day, from the rear of a rooming house, Ray stood in a bathtub to fire the shot.
—Jeremy Gray | , al, 5 Apr. 2023
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He, his parents and two siblings shared a tiny, two-room house.
—CBS News, 20 Oct. 2019
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His dad, Carl, was a plumber and his mother Ethel ran a rooming house in the beach town of Belle Harbor.
—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2022
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City records show the building, a rooming house, was vacant by 1978.
—Josh Barbanel, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2017
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In May 2008, a knock came at the door of Veneranda Mwakasali's modest, four-room house elsewhere in the same province.
—Margaret Redmond Whitehead, Good Housekeeping, 15 Sep. 2017
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Across the street, a man raises his rifle in the narrow bathroom of a derelict rooming house and points it at King.
—John Blake, CNN, 3 Apr. 2018
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In his rooming house on St. Marks Place, Alger held a proto-meet-up for them.
—Alissa Quart, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2023
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Wyckoff House in Brooklyn: The one-room house was constructed in 1652 and is thought to be the oldest building in the city.
—New York Times, 16 Mar. 2020
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The 1861 home had been a rooming house, its rooms divided around a winding stair.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Oct. 2023
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The kitchen has been updated with stainless-steel appliances and the bonus room house has a swank bar.
—Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 14 Dec. 2017
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It was turned into a rooming house sometime after the First World War.
—Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2018
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Korematsu made up a fake name and laid low in a rooming house.
—Deanna Paul, Washington Post, 27 June 2018
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In the scuffle, the man pushed John from the second-story window of a south side rooming house to the concrete slab below.
—Meg Kissinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
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The 25-year-old farmer lived in a four-room house made of wood and bamboo surrounded by coconut and mango trees.
—Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2017
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Before that, in Times Square, there were just rooming houses.
—Karrie Jacobs, Curbed, 12 Oct. 2023
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Eventually, Rob agreed to meet the woman who ran the rooming house.
—jsonline.com, 1 Sep. 2021
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Sitrick and his two younger brothers grew up in a nondescript five-room house on a narrow lot on the South Side of Chicago.
—Los Angeles Magazine, 19 Dec. 2017
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Oswald, 24, an odd and boorish man, stayed downtown in a rooming house.
—Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2017
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An antique family abacus holds a revered place in the tiny one-room house Yu and Zhang share in the old alleys of Beijing.
—Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2019
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The longtime owners of the Creath House restored the historic residence, which had been a rooming house.
—oregonlive, 15 Nov. 2021
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The four men rented a room in a North Talbot Street rooming house and honed their skills on filling station and grocery store holdups.
—Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 29 June 2018
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After a year at Cornerstone, Richard Pelletier found a spot at a rooming house down the street.
—Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 12 Dec. 2022
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He was arrested in August 2018 for keeping a gun in his unit in a Boston rooming house.
—BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
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Chitina was a place of a few houses, a hotel and a rooming house and some road commission houses.
—Mary Ann Ashcraft, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 Mar. 2021
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The characters who work at Paradise Club and live upstairs in the rooming house can’t help feeling that a target has been placed on their backs.
—Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021
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One man had been dead for three days before his decomposing body was found in his rooming house bed.
—jsonline.com, 31 Aug. 2021
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The family shared a small one-room house, with the yaks and other animals sleeping downstairs.
—Anna Callaghan, Outside Online, 16 May 2018
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The vaulted living room housed a fifteen-foot Christmas tree every year.
—Smith Henderson, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2017
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