How to Use live-in in a Sentence

live-in

1 of 2 adjective

• Her live-in boyfriend, Zev (Michael Zegen), has left her.
  — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 10 July 2025
• Oh, and Joe wants a live-in beta reader for his work-in-progress.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2025
• White, then 18, helped the family as a live-in babysitter and paid $20 a month in rent.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2024
• Burda was a live-in handyman at Day’s home in Phoenix, OR.
  — Bruce Haring, Deadline, 11 July 2024
• Fuentes was the live-in boyfriend of the child's mother, and the girl was under age 10 at the time of the rape, prosecutors said.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 5 July 2023
• Dear Amy: My live-in boyfriend is a low-level pot dealer.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2023
• The doorman building had a laundry room and a live-in super.
  — Anna Fixsen, New York Times, 29 May 2025
• The building offered a laundry room and a live-in super.
  — Alena Cerro, New York Times, 19 June 2025
• The building had a full-time doorman and live-in super, plus a laundry room and roof deck.
  — Joyce Cohen, New York Times, 1 May 2025
• Felony Carl is his live-in boyfriend, who is a human man and not another Glob.
  — Vulture, 2 June 2023
• The live-in tree stump features a studio layout with two beds and one bathroom.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
• Banfield's charging in the case comes months after the family's 24-year-old live-in au pair was charged in the case.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2024
• Foster can’t cut his food or get out of bed without help from his live-in sister.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
• Palmer first introduced Pavlovich to Gaiman as the couple’s live-in nanny.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 July 2025
• The oldest male in the United States was a man of many appetites, even at 110, and his live-in caretaker did her best to feed them.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
• Davis and Glen Griffin of Houston, Texas, say having a live-in au pair to care for their three children has been a lifesaver.
  — Alexis Christoforous, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2024
• Buckle up, folks: A mother-and-daughter duo have a story to tell about their live-in nurse named Bridget.
  — Julie Klausner, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
• Eunice works as a live-in maid in a penthouse apartment in Brazil along with her daughter, Mabel.
  — Literary Hub july 1, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
• Koch's live-in boyfriend, Joel Manke, 38, is charged with chronic neglect of a child and false imprisonment.
  — Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2023
• Their home, unlike the former ways royal children were raised, has no live-in nanny or staff.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2025
• Westcott’s live-in girlfriend at the time of the sale also testified Thursday.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2023
• The new code remains silent on the question of live-in relationships that are not between men and women.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• He has also been accused of groping a former live-in nanny more than 20 years ago.
  — Emily Martin, The Hill, 25 Nov. 2024
• Has the live-in girlfriend been someone who was really good to or generous with your kids?
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
• Advice Dear Amy: A year ago, my mother-in-law’s live-in companion died by suicide.
  — Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
• Each of those includes a two-car garage and additional living space, likely for guests or live-in staff.
  — James McClain, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2024
• Smith was convicted in 2000 for murder in the shooting death of his live-in girlfriend, LaKendra Kirkland, in Dothan.
  — Amy Yurkanin | [e-mail], al, 6 June 2023
• The child’s mother called police just before 2:30 a.m. and said her live-in boyfriend had shot her son, Santa Clara police said Tuesday evening.
  — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
• At the time, many young female immigrants worked as live-in maids for wealthy families uptown.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 14 Jan. 2024
• On the show, Tony is an ex-baseball player and widower who moves with Samantha to Brooklyn to take a job as a live-in housekeeper.
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2024

live in

2 of 2 verb

• Martha’s sister lives in the unit in the back of the house.
  — Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• The boyfriend was the owner of the Chrysler 300 and lived in that apartment building.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2024
• The couple lives in the three-bedroom apartment on the first floor.
  — Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 29 Dec. 2024
• Campos has lived in the Franklin area – about 20 miles south of Nashville – for the past 20 years.
  — Zach Mentz, cleveland, 12 July 2023
• The suspect lived in the outskirts of Villach and his house has been searched.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 15 Feb. 2025
• With his wife, McCourt lived in the same apartment in New York for 59 years.
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
• The new species lives in the deep sea and is able to glow, but very little is known about its lifestyle.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 2 June 2024
• Should people who live in these high risk flood zones just move?
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
• The Randolphs, who’ve been married for 37 years, have lived in the cottage behind the gallery for the last 14 years.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 28 June 2025
• Shvets has lived in Kyiv since moving there from Kharkiv, two decades ago.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2024
• The teenager lives in Brooklyn and is a high school student.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
• Those that live in Zone 2 can use decoys from April 11 until the end of the season May 8.
  — Cole Sikes Communications and Marketing Specialist Alabama Cooperative Extension System, al, 23 Mar. 2023
• About half of the population lives in greater Seoul, for lack of jobs in the provinces.
  — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 4 June 2025
• The last Peck descendant to live in the home was Alyce Mertz, who lived there until her death in 1991.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• Both of us had lived in New York City apartments for nearly 25 years.
  — Various Staff Writers, Special Correspondents, and Special Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• Although his roots are in Phillips County, Helm lived in Springdale in the 1980s.
  — Bill Bowden, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2023
• McKenzie, who lives in rural Fort Gaines, wants to work again.
  — Renuka Rayasam, NPR, 27 June 2025
• This one lives in a bit of a dead-end town — the roller rink a star attraction — and puts a human face on them.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2025
• The place to splurge is on hero pieces like a suede blazer or a chic pair of pants that will live in your closet for years.
  — Gabrielle Porcaro, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2024
• Vargas lives in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx, about nine miles from where the mugging took place.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2025
• The post office staff has shrunk over the years, from five or six clerks to just two, who live in apartments above the lobby.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
• The girl lived in the San Diego County city of Vista, according to the coroner’s report.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
• Her grandmother lived in a home right around the corner from where her body was found.
  — Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 23 July 2025
• For the past two decades, Frank has worked with a researcher named Mimi Munson, who lives in Maine.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The study gave out monthly checks to people between the ages of 21 and 40 living in Texas and Illinois.
  — Oshan Jarow, Vox, 22 July 2024
• Also one of the few A’s players to live in downtown Oakland during his time with the team.
  — Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
• To all the kids out there living in small towns, in small houses, with single parents.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 3 Feb. 2025
• Her husband is on the front line, and Vova is an only child, so Kucherenko lives in their small, tidy house alone.
  — Claire Harbage, NPR, 22 May 2024
• Eighty years later, Novak and her cousins are still here—some living in the area as full-time residents, others returning for the summer.
  — Katherine Lawless, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2025
• Eventually, Billy learned that his father was living in Vienna and went to visit him at his apartment.
  — Erin Clack, People.com, 3 Aug. 2025