How to Use lodger in a Sentence

lodger

noun

• Cells now could harvest the fuel made by their new lodgers.
  — Carl Zimmer, STAT, 30 May 2018
• Next to it is the large 1908 brick Goodwin-Kinkaid building that once bustled with offices, restaurants and lodgers.
  — John Bordsen, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2017
• There were all these people that came into our lives constantly—through a door, out the back door, this lodger, that person….
  — Jay Cheshes, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2020
• His mother, Elgiva (Ackland-Allen) Giles, took in lodgers to make ends meet.
  — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2019
• As Young and her friends filmed the harrowing encounter from an adjacent parked car, one of the lodgers made a few careful attempts to open the car door.
  — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• Older girls finish the day’s homework in the computer room before helping out with the younger lodgers.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2017
• Like with cosmetics, German and British lodgers are most likely to keep bathrobes as souvenirs.
  — Rosie Siefert, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• When their contractors arrived in the spring of 2021, the family moved upstairs, camping out on the upper floors and using the lodger’s kitchen.
  — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 7 June 2022
• For now, Collins, who is divorced, has taken a lodger in her home to generate extra income.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 3 July 2020
• Hurlbert said that since the train has been running, the resort and town have seen an uptick in lodgers coming up Saturday and leaving Sunday.
  — Danika Worthington, The Denver Post, 22 Mar. 2017
• Several buyers also used extra rooms to take in lodgers, collect rent, and dream of a bigger home.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Country Living, 14 July 2016
• The artist became a regular at La Colombe d'Or, and others soon followed, either as diners or lodgers.
  — Lianne Turner and Thomas Page, CNN, 14 June 2017
• Five-star guests are also more than five times more inclined than four-star lodgers to steal coffee makers, which went missing at 6.9% of the hotels surveyed.
  — Rosie Siefert, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• Not quite a decade later, an American boy gets caught up in Cold War machinations when his mother takes in a Russian lodger.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
• Meanwhile, Philip’s mother Myra rants about the immorality of Liam’s mother having shacked up with their lodger.
  — Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Usually after dinner, her three lodgers head upstairs to separate rooms to log data from their day or work the phones.
  — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2020
• If there were riots going on at check-in time, said Ahmad al-Manawee, the guest relations manager, Plan B was to bring the lodgers in through a side entrance.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2017
• Her hosts fretted about a practice new to her: the possibility of crosses being burned in their yard due to the presence of a dark-eyed lodger with a foreign accent.
  — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
• Our cells are also home to ancient lodgers — bacteria that invaded the cells of our ancestors 1.8 billion years ago, with DNA of their own.
  — Carl Zimmer, STAT, 30 May 2018
• Her body was never found, but they were convicted of her murder and scores of other charges in 2000, partly on the basis of Sante Kimes’s notebooks detailing the plot and notes by the victim expressing fear of her lodgers.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 21 July 2019
• One temporary-housing camp is offering free food to attract lodgers, and trailer parks are emptying.
  — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2020
• This was typical; little had changed since the 1911 census revealed that in Glasgow almost two-thirds of dwellings—many housing large families and lodgers—had only one or two rooms, compared to a third of dwellings in London.
  — Sam Rigby, Quartz, 2 Nov. 2019
• At this branch of the 66-location chain, lodgers can browse the lobby’s record shop-slash-library, run in cooperation with the subscription record service VNYL, for albums to buy or borrow during their stay.
  — Adrienne Gaffney, Billboard, 12 Apr. 2019
• The three lodgers are aspiring filmmakers thrilled to be in proximity to such Hollywood royalty, and, of course all fall for Witherspoon.
  — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
• Officers conducted extra patrols to find the prospective lodger.
  — Samantha Swindler, OregonLive.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• That would be our gastrointestinal lodger, Escherichia coli, the little bug that helped build modern biology and launch the entire biotechnology industry.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2011
• But some lodgers would see such searches as invasions of privacy, especially as Sunday's horror becomes more distant.
  — Wayne T. Price, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2017
• The other abbreviations stood for child, parent, grandchild, other relative, lodger, servant, other, and inmate.
  — WIRED, 25 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024