: a person who lives in the same house with another
Examples of housemate in a Sentence
In college, she lived in a house off campus with five housemates.
The TV belongs to my housemate.
Recent Examples on the WebThe housemates then headed to the beach, where Carl and Danielle, 36, tossed around a football and caught up.—Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024 Groups separated by the pandemic shared their screens on Zoom or even rallied their housemates to turn an ordinary night in isolation into an opportunity for a private TedTalk.—Scottie Andrew, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024 The slayings of University of Idaho housemates Goncalves, Kernodle and Madison Mogen, and Kernodle's boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, in the early morning of Nov. 13, 2022, stunned the college community of Moscow, sparking weeks of speculation and thousands of tips before culminating in an arrest.—Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2024 New housemate Jesse Solomon arrived in time for the party, but Summer House vets Carl Radke and Lindsay Hubbard spent the weekend in Washington, D.C.
Kyle caught up with Paige, 31, during the party and vented to her about his relationship issues.—Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024 One day in the spring of 2005, Huffman and Ohanian—then a pair of college housemates at the University of Virginia—traveled to Boston to attend a lecture by tech investor Paul Graham.—Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024 One of the housemates has a channel named for the Mittwochsgesellschaft, or Wednesday Society, an underground group of intellectuals in eighteenth-century Berlin.—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024 Back in 2012, Michael, a budding Orange County legal weed impresario, and Mary, his housemate, were abducted and driven out to the desert.—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2024 While appearing on Celebrity Big Brother in the United Kingdom, the media personality discussed public backlash following accusations of racist behavior on The Talk with her housemates.—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
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