: a house where lodgings are provided for rent
Examples of rooming house in a Sentence
After losing his job, he moved to a cheap rooming house.
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Police picked up a docile McCowen at his rooming house, lying on the bed, watching cartoons; marijuana and an open bottle of prescription pain killers were on the table nearby.
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Susan Spencer, CBS News, 6 July 2024
Around World War I, mansions began to be divided up for rooming houses, while others were torn down to make room for apartment complexes as the density of the area grew.
—Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2024
Her body couldn’t go to her lover’s home or her rooming house.
—Marcia Biederman, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2024
The building would be situated on what is now vacant land between 440 and 460 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., next door to the King's Arms Hotel rooming house.
—Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 15 May 2024
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Susan Spencer, CBS News, 6 July 2024
Around World War I, mansions began to be divided up for rooming houses, while others were torn down to make room for apartment complexes as the density of the area grew.
—Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2024
Her body couldn’t go to her lover’s home or her rooming house.
—Marcia Biederman, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2024
The building would be situated on what is now vacant land between 440 and 460 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., next door to the King's Arms Hotel rooming house.
—Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 15 May 2024
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“Rooming house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rooming%20house. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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