: 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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By the middle of the 20th century, the handsome brownstone had been chopped up into a rooming house, and in the early 1980s, it was reconfigured with one apartment on each of its five floors.
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Mark David, Robb Report, 3 Dec. 2025
Once at the scene of the crime, Schapiro made his way across the street to a rooming house from where he was told the gunman had shot King.
—Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 17 Nov. 2025
His parents ran a luncheonette and rooming house near factories whose immigrant workers came in to eat.
—David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
The four-story, 250-room building has operated in recent decades as a downmarket rooming house.
—Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 22 Sep. 2025
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Mark David, Robb Report, 3 Dec. 2025
Once at the scene of the crime, Schapiro made his way across the street to a rooming house from where he was told the gunman had shot King.
—Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 17 Nov. 2025
His parents ran a luncheonette and rooming house near factories whose immigrant workers came in to eat.
—David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
The four-story, 250-room building has operated in recent decades as a downmarket rooming house.
—Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 22 Sep. 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 Dec. 2025.
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