How to Use roommate in a Sentence

roommate

noun
  • The three returned to the plaintiff’s dorm, and the roommate went to bed.
    Michael Williams, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • But the boys have had, like, more roommates in their lives.
    Lizzy Goodman, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The woman in the room said her roommate tried to stop her from using the phone.
    cleveland, 27 Oct. 2022
  • My roommate Kevin and I lived in this brick house in Georgetown.
    Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2023
  • His son and a roommate share an apartment in the building struck by the plane, but weren’t home at the time of the crash.
    Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Zuri Reed stars as tech-savvy Tasha, Jess' roommate and friend.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Nell attempts to restart her life in a new place with a new job and a new roommate.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The fifth-wheel roommate in a home with a baby is not a tempting gig.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Their dads played on the men's basketball team and their moms were roommates at the school.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 23 May 2024
  • At the end of sophomore year of college, my roommates and I had back luck that turned out to be the best luck.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • On the night four college students were killed, a roommate saw a man clad in black walk through the home.
    Serge F. Kovaleski, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 May 2024
  • DeBusschere, Bill’s roommate on the road, slept through most of that.
    John McPhee, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Joe's roommate called the Lawrances to tell them that Joe had attempted to take his own life.
    Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2024
  • The friend brought her sister, who brought her own friend who brought his roommate, Mary.
    Maya Tekeli, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • It’s set to capture how the two went from roommates to lovers as Dean built his career.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
  • So, in 2015, Provost teamed up with his college roommate.
    Robyn A. Friedman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • She was found in her bedroom by her roommate, Paula Rudolph.
    Kaila Nichols, CNN, 23 June 2024
  • Around the same time, his roommate took another job and left the business.
    Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Invite your roommate to sit down for a meeting with you.
    Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
  • Two other roommates survived the stabbing, one of whom saw a masked figure in the house.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 17 May 2023
  • In the first episode of the series, though, Lucy shows up to her dorm room to meet her new roommate—Macy Campbell.
    Keely Weiss, ELLE, 7 Sep. 2022
  • As the car pulled into the driveway of the sorority house, light burst through the roommates' window.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Holmes plays Hailee, Carmen’s wild and iconic army brat roommate with a heart of gold.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 11 July 2024
  • And why would anyone want to share their home with ghostly roommates?
    Michelle Mastro, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2024
  • In 2009, Atherton and her roommate had just been evicted from their home.
    Autumn Barnes, NPR, 25 Nov. 2024
  • In many ways, Lance holds up his end of the roommate bargain that comes with long-term partnership.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2023
  • At about the same time, the downstairs roommate heard noises from Goncalves’s room and thought Goncalves was playing with her dog.
    Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Nor did the social worker vet Wood’s claim that her roommate and a family friend helped with the kids when she was gone.
    Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024

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