How to Use rooming house in a Sentence

rooming house

noun

• After losing his job, he moved to a cheap rooming house.
• Her body couldn’t go to her lover’s home or her rooming house.
  — Marcia Biederman, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2024
• Domingo took us to his home, a two-room house on the top of a hill.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 26 July 2019
• Korematsu made up a fake name and laid low in a rooming house.
  — Deanna Paul, Washington Post, 27 June 2018
• The next day, from the rear of a rooming house, Ray stood in a bathtub to fire the shot.
  — Jeremy Gray | , al, 5 Apr. 2023
• One man had been dead for three days before his decomposing body was found in his rooming house bed.
  — jsonline.com, 31 Aug. 2021
• The kitchen has been updated with stainless-steel appliances and the bonus room house has a swank bar.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• Before that, in Times Square, there were just rooming houses.
  — Karrie Jacobs, Curbed, 12 Oct. 2023
• State laws for tourist rooming houses focus on health and safety standards.
  — Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 25 Dec. 2025
• Oswald, 24, an odd and boorish man, stayed downtown in a rooming house.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2017
• City records show the building, a rooming house, was vacant by 1978.
  — Josh Barbanel, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2017
• More people were reported trapped inside the two-and-a-half story rooming house.
  — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2017
• Eventually, Rob agreed to meet the woman who ran the rooming house.
  — jsonline.com, 1 Sep. 2021
• The vaulted living room housed a fifteen-foot Christmas tree every year.
  — Smith Henderson, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2017
• Chitina was a place of a few houses, a hotel and a rooming house and some road commission houses.
  — Mary Ann Ashcraft, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 Mar. 2021
• Across the street, a man raises his rifle in the narrow bathroom of a derelict rooming house and points it at King.
  — John Blake, CNN, 3 Apr. 2018
• The 1861 home had been a rooming house, its rooms divided around a winding stair.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Oct. 2023
• Or to the proud, liverish flesh of her mother, who now presides over a rooming house of alcoholics.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
• The 25-year-old farmer lived in a four-room house made of wood and bamboo surrounded by coconut and mango trees.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2017
• The family shared a small one-room house, with the yaks and other animals sleeping downstairs.
  — Anna Callaghan, Outside Online, 16 May 2018
• It was turned into a rooming house sometime after the First World War.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2018
• 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 room houses a mix of allegorical works and some that feel more visceral, like sculptures.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 6 Dec. 2019
• The other rooming houses on three other streets, all owned by the same landlord, received minor fire damage.
  — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 5 Feb. 2018
• In the scuffle, the man pushed John from the second-story window of a south side rooming house to the concrete slab below.
  — Meg Kissinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
• His dad, Carl, was a plumber and his mother Ethel ran a rooming house in the beach town of Belle Harbor.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2022
• The hotel eventually became a rooming house, with a tavern.
  — Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• The hotel eventually became a rooming house, with a tavern.
  — Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2025
• By day’s end, Payne was at Oswald’s rooming house talking to neighbors, peeling off layers of the man’s life.
  — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2024