How to Use youth hostel in a Sentence

youth hostel

noun
  • Until the 1980s, the villa was a youth hostel for school trips.
    New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The young man living in a youth hostel and tucking office pastries in doggy bags not long ago will have to learn how to be rich.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2021
  • Céline attempts to move on, returning to her old job at a youth hostel.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 13 Feb. 2022
  • To keep the trip under budget, the girls made the five-day journey across the Atlantic on the Queen Elizabeth in tourist class and stayed in youth hostels and campgrounds, while in Europe.
    Margarita Cambest, baltimoresun.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The second floor could become a youth hostel or boutique hotel.
    Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Of lively nights in the community center that's the island's social hub and the location of a youth hostel for overnight stays.
    Barry Neild, CNN, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Over the many years, its main purpose has shifted: it has been used as an administration office, a prison, a mental asylum, and a youth hostel.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2018
  • For the next three months, though, my evenings were regularly whiled away in cafes and youth hostels, sipping wine and arguing about art, politics and revolution.
    Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The Falwells and Granda later became business partners and offered Granda a share in a Miami youth hostel.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Dangarembga has returned to that central character in her latest book, opening with her living in a squalid youth hostel in Harare, confronting the limits of her hoped-for future.
    Chloe Schama, Vogue, 30 May 2018
  • The government created youth hostels and slashed train fares for vacationers.
    Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2019
  • San Francisco supervisors Tuesday agreed to open a new homeless shelter for 250 people in a vacant youth hostel building just north of the Tenderloin.
    J.d. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Luxembourg City’s youth hostel, which is just one of more than 3,000 locations within the Hostelling International network, was extensive.
    Erin Henk, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
  • In May, Germany closed a youth hostel that was operating in what was originally North Korean diplomatic quarters.
    David Segal, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Overlooking the Place de la Nation, this new contemporary youth hostel offers bunk rooms alongside individual rooms with private bathrooms.
    Washington Post, 23 July 2021

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