: 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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The historian Dylan Gottlieb has explained how Hoboken property owners torched hundreds of inhabited tenements and rooming houses to clear space for yuppies’ luxury apartments.
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Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
The building, originally a home, later became a hotel and rooming house before being acquired by the city in 2013.
—Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2025
The Fall River fire is the deadliest Massachusetts has seen since 1984, when 15 people died in a Beverly rooming house.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 14 July 2025
Writer Wallace Thurman would throw parties at his rooming house, attracting a more bohemian crowd from Harlem and the Village.
—Shannon J. Effinger, AFAR Media, 18 Mar. 2025
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Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
The building, originally a home, later became a hotel and rooming house before being acquired by the city in 2013.
—Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2025
The Fall River fire is the deadliest Massachusetts has seen since 1984, when 15 people died in a Beverly rooming house.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 14 July 2025
Writer Wallace Thurman would throw parties at his rooming house, attracting a more bohemian crowd from Harlem and the Village.
—Shannon J. Effinger, AFAR Media, 18 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for rooming house
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“Rooming house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rooming%20house. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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