How to Use roommate in a Sentence
roommate
noun-
The three returned to the plaintiff’s dorm, and the roommate went to bed.
— Michael Williams, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2023 -
But the boys have had, like, more roommates in their lives.
— Lizzy Goodman, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023 -
The woman in the room said her roommate tried to stop her from using the phone.
— cleveland, 27 Oct. 2022 -
My roommate Kevin and I lived in this brick house in Georgetown.
— Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2023 -
His son and a roommate share an apartment in the building struck by the plane, but weren’t home at the time of the crash.
— Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022 -
Zuri Reed stars as tech-savvy Tasha, Jess' roommate and friend.
— Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2022 -
Nell attempts to restart her life in a new place with a new job and a new roommate.
— Rodney Ho, ajc, 6 Feb. 2023 -
The fifth-wheel roommate in a home with a baby is not a tempting gig.
— Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023 -
Their dads played on the men's basketball team and their moms were roommates at the school.
— Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 23 May 2024 -
At the end of sophomore year of college, my roommates and I had back luck that turned out to be the best luck.
— Ryan Craig, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024 -
On the night four college students were killed, a roommate saw a man clad in black walk through the home.
— Serge F. Kovaleski, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023 -
Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.
— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 May 2024 -
DeBusschere, Bill’s roommate on the road, slept through most of that.
— John McPhee, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023 -
Joe's roommate called the Lawrances to tell them that Joe had attempted to take his own life.
— Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2024 -
The friend brought her sister, who brought her own friend who brought his roommate, Mary.
— Maya Tekeli, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024 -
It’s set to capture how the two went from roommates to lovers as Dean built his career.
— Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024 -
So, in 2015, Provost teamed up with his college roommate.
— Robyn A. Friedman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023 -
She was found in her bedroom by her roommate, Paula Rudolph.
— Kaila Nichols, CNN, 23 June 2024 -
Around the same time, his roommate took another job and left the business.
— Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024 -
Invite your roommate to sit down for a meeting with you.
— Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024 -
Two other roommates survived the stabbing, one of whom saw a masked figure in the house.
— Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 17 May 2023 -
In the first episode of the series, though, Lucy shows up to her dorm room to meet her new roommate—Macy Campbell.
— Keely Weiss, ELLE, 7 Sep. 2022 -
As the car pulled into the driveway of the sorority house, light burst through the roommates' window.
— Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2023 -
Holmes plays Hailee, Carmen’s wild and iconic army brat roommate with a heart of gold.
— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 11 July 2024 -
And why would anyone want to share their home with ghostly roommates?
— Michelle Mastro, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2024 -
In many ways, Lance holds up his end of the roommate bargain that comes with long-term partnership.
— Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2023 -
At about the same time, the downstairs roommate heard noises from Goncalves’s room and thought Goncalves was playing with her dog.
— Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023 -
Webb was the roommate of 75-year-old Dorothy Douglas, who was the subject of the welfare check that brought police to the Riverwest house.
— Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2022 -
The Seattle native spent four years in an Italian prison after her British roommate was killed.
— Christina Coulter, Fox News, 20 Nov. 2024 -
The first witness called to testify Friday was Lilly Steiner, one of Riley’s roommates at the time.
— Daniella Silva, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
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