: 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 real estate agents said that a single-family home would essentially become a rooming house with unrelated tenants sharing living spaces that are normally overseen by zoning regulations.
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Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2026
Riverlawn was a project of apartments and barracks-type rooming houses adjacent to Frontier.
—Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
Police said a woman was stabbed multiple times inside a rooming house on the 5500 block of West Girard Avenue in West Philly on Sunday.
—Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
In 1950, a Joanne Smith, of the correct age of twenty, was working as a receptionist at a bank in Minneapolis, living in a rooming house.
—Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
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Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2026
Riverlawn was a project of apartments and barracks-type rooming houses adjacent to Frontier.
—Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
Police said a woman was stabbed multiple times inside a rooming house on the 5500 block of West Girard Avenue in West Philly on Sunday.
—Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
In 1950, a Joanne Smith, of the correct age of twenty, was working as a receptionist at a bank in Minneapolis, living in a rooming house.
—Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
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 25 Apr. 2026.
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