: 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 four-story, 250-room building has operated in recent decades as a downmarket rooming house.
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Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 22 Sep. 2025
The hotel eventually became a rooming house, with a tavern.
—Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 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
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Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 22 Sep. 2025
The hotel eventually became a rooming house, with a tavern.
—Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 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
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 21 Oct. 2025.
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