How to Use roommate in a Sentence

roommate

noun

• The three returned to the plaintiff’s dorm, and the roommate went to bed.
  — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2023
• But the boys have had, like, more roommates in their lives.
  — Lizzy Goodman, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
• The woman in the room said her roommate tried to stop her from using the phone.
  — cleveland, 27 Oct. 2022
• My roommate Kevin and I lived in this brick house in Georgetown.
  — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2023
• The second month rolled around, and my roommate didn’t have her share of the rent and claimed to have been laid off.
  — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
• His son and a roommate share an apartment in the building struck by the plane, but weren’t home at the time of the crash.
  — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
• During the fight, the roommate attacked him with a knife.
  — Tandra Smith | [e-mail], al, 12 Oct. 2021
• Zuri Reed stars as tech-savvy Tasha, Jess' roommate and friend.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2022
• Nell attempts to restart her life in a new place with a new job and a new roommate.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 6 Feb. 2023
• The roommate left the house and called 911, officials said.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 21 Feb. 2022
• The fifth-wheel roommate in a home with a baby is not a tempting gig.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• No one knew about the plan ahead of time, except for his roommate and the friend who wrote it on his arm.
  — Alaina Demopoulos, Allure, 24 Mar. 2022
• Her roommate was already asleep when the man showed up.
  — Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2021
• Their dads played on the men's basketball team and their moms were roommates at the school.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 23 May 2024
• And most women didn’t want to live with male roommates.
  — Violet Piper, Curbed, 28 Jan. 2025
• At the end of sophomore year of college, my roommates and I had back luck that turned out to be the best luck.
  — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
• On the night four college students were killed, a roommate saw a man clad in black walk through the home.
  — Serge F. Kovaleski, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 7 Aug. 2022
• Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 May 2024
• DeBusschere, Bill’s roommate on the road, slept through most of that.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• Joe's roommate called the Lawrances to tell them that Joe had attempted to take his own life.
  — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2024
• The friend brought her sister, who brought her own friend who brought his roommate, Mary.
  — Maya Tekeli, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• It’s set to capture how the two went from roommates to lovers as Dean built his career.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
• Amie's roommate was jolted out of sleep by her screams.
  — CBS News, 12 Feb. 2022
• So, in 2015, Provost teamed up with his college roommate.
  — Robyn A. Friedman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• She was found in her bedroom by her roommate, Paula Rudolph.
  — Kaila Nichols, CNN, 23 June 2024
• Pearce lived on the second floor with a roommate — Brandt Osborn, 42.
  — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2025
• Fort Worth police said charges will soon be filed against Thornburg in the killing of his roommate.
  — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2021
• The roommate — a 57-year-old man — suspected the woman’s ex-boyfriend was responsible, Jones said.
  — Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2025
• In the seventh episode of Adults, FX’s new sitcom about a group of roommates navigating early-20s adulthood in Queens, there’s a withering joke about one of the show’s main characters that doubles as an inadvertent roast of the show itself.
  — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 4 June 2025