How to Use flatmate in a Sentence

flatmate

noun

• The flatmate had been very kind.
  — Literary Hub, 27 May 2026
• He’d been battered to death with a hammer — which was also buried — by his flatmate, the mural painter.
  — Longreads, 15 June 2018
• His life spirals out when his flatmate moves out, leaving his collection of plants, his dog, a cardigan and a ghost.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 9 Feb. 2022
• Jewish sports fans who listen to hip-hop are the Platonic ideal of a flatmate.
  — The Economist, 19 July 2019
• Get creative and try making bats, pumpkins, Frankenstein, or your flatmate in marshmallow form.
  — Spoon U, Teen Vogue, 14 Oct. 2017
• Her flatmate, Maria, or Masha, used to groan when Pomorina stopped the car to pick up yet another dog.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2020
• Adrift in a confusing world and armed with nothing but a bit of hope and her flatmates, Jen begins her journey to find her maybe-superpower.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 23 Aug. 2023
• As these videos told it, the thunder god just took it easy and tried to live a normal life, including living in a small Australian apartment with a somewhat twitchy flatmate.
  — Patricia Hernandez, The Verge, 14 Aug. 2018
• This dilemma was inspired during lockdown, when my flatmate was listening to the audiobook of Bleak House.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
• Subjects in the study were then presented with two fictitious flatmates and asked to rate each on a scale of one to seven based on the same set of demographic and personal characteristics.
  — The Economist, 19 July 2019
• Filming mostly took place in James’ own backyard of London, and her co-lead, Shazad Latif, happened to be a longtime friend and former flatmate.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2023
• The RentCafe poll found that at least 50 percent of the time, men argue with flatmates in legal fields, marketing and advertising, and construction.
  — Danielle Braff, chicagotribune.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• The new book begins with the bizarre murder of an ambitious young trainee doctor, Sasha Johnson, who was attacked while walking through Russell Square on her way to meet her flatmate.
  — Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2023
• Set in a Barcelona shaped by housing crisis, the film follows a delivery worker on the verge of eviction who must find her missing flatmate-landlord after she is abducted by a criminal group tied to the city’s property market.
  — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
• In the second episode, Niall meets Joanna, one of his freshman flatmates at university, who, like almost everyone else in Ruben’s orbit, is subjected to his extreme behavior.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 8 May 2026
• Naturally, she’s created a matchmaking app to facilitate such pairings, though that doesn’t sound like much fun to her unimpressed peers, including otherwise supportive flatmate Elle (Mallori Johnson).
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• Nor is there any depth whatsoever to a host of support characters played by attractive actors who don’t get to do a lot of acting here, perhaps excepting an alternately lively and too-strenuous Ayden Cross as Shaw’s flatmate Ella.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
• The cast includes Black Ops star Hammed Animashaun, Emma Sidi, who played Rose Matafeo’s flatmate in Starstruck, and Al Nash, a viral comic who satirizes social media tropes.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2026
• American Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted of the murder of Ms Knox's former British flatmate Meredith Kercher in 2007.
  — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025