How to Use housemate in a Sentence

housemate

noun

• In college, she lived in a house off campus with five housemates.
• The TV belongs to my housemate.
• All the items stolen belong to Gronk’s housemates, though.
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 21 June 2018
• Kiehl and her five housemates each pay about $400 per month, Kiehl said.
  — Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 15 May 2020
• Four new housemates joined the show last week, but were not allowed to talk about the virus, the channel said.
  — NBC News, 18 Mar. 2020
• My housemates were a doughy white Rhodesian and a tall boy from Hong Kong.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• Bullis at the time was living in Champaign with a group of polyamorous housemates.
  — Jamie Munks, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2019
• One housemate saw a broken bat in the kitchen a few hours later.
  — John H. Tucker, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2022
• That was us—my housemate and me, plus two friends who live alone nearby.
  — Laurie Penny, Wired, 18 June 2020
• When the housemate walked into the room, Josie Burko was gasping for breath, Schuler said.
  — oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2021
• Crossing paths with her boyfriend’s best friend and housemate wasn’t on the agenda.
  — Kimberly Bridson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• One was from a bunch of housemates who planned to leave Jessica tethered in the yard.
  — Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2019
• The 92-year-old Frankel was killed in her Kensington home in July; a young housemate has been charged in the case.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021
• My housemate is not a geek, but sometimes civilians have much to teach us.
  — Laurie Penny, Wired, 13 Dec. 2020
• His housemate, dumped in the desert with him, managed to flag down a passing sheriff’s deputy.
  — Christopher Goffardstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• The black trash bag full of day-old doughnut your housemate dragged out of the dumpster and deposited in your kitchen.
  — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 16 Oct. 2019
• Crash will be happy to have the company, as long as his housemates know who’s boss.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
• When the police came a third time, in 2012, John again was not home, but his housemates were jailed for three months on armed robbery charges.
  — Sean Williams, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• There was #dating, where housemates helped each other with affairs of the heart.
  — The Economist, 8 Nov. 2019
• Cats can even tell if their feline housemates have been to the vet — because their aroma will have changed.
  — Alisa Bowman, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
• These housemates Home sharing:Renting a room in your home?
  — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
• But it’s from the character Frank (Jesse Dabson), the fish-out-of-water housemate.
  — Ian Goldstein, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2021
• So much of what makes the U.K. version work is watching the friendships form between housemates.
  — Amy Kaufman, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
• Nearly a year later, many of the beagles are thriving in new homes, their new housemates said.
  — Johnny Diaz, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• One lonely Saturday, my housemate was at her boyfriend’s and my Zoom Rolodex was picked through.
  — Rebecca Horrigan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2020
• Thrice jabbed, 33 and single, with a schedule determined in large part by a housemate who is 8 months old.
  — Adam Zemel, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
• Her housemate suffered a stab wound to her lower back, police said.
  — oregonlive, 6 Oct. 2020
• Weirdly, my boyfriend’s housemate, P., was at this very moment on his way to adopt the dog, because his dad had also known Don.
  — Sarah Miller, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2020
• My housemate found me and gave me CPR until the ambulance arrived.
  — Yasmin Lajoie, refinery29.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• Hughes said her housemate was angry about the vandalism and quickly put the flag back up.
  — oregonlive.com, 17 July 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024