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 -
That place wasn’t communal the way a lot of youth hostels were.
— Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2023 -
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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