as in rooming house
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Recent Examples of lodging house
Research trips took them to local lodging houses, private family homes, and vintage Deco hotels including Bombay’s Bentley’s Hotel and Sea Green Hotel on Marine Drive.
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Nicole Trilivas, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Reserve a simple lodging house or a two-bedroom apartment.
—Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2024
While unwilling to engage with gangs of vacationing children, Anchorage police did arrest and jail one man for repeatedly leaving his lodging house.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2020
The response was sometimes harsh -- any lodging house where an infection appeared was burnt to the ground.
—Paul French, CNN, 18 Apr. 2020
Meanwhile, after Crossing Over left the Mount Vernon Street house and moved into the 29 Nutting St. triple-decker, a city inspector declared that Flagg was using the property as a lodging house, not allowed in his residential zone.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2019
Everything else loomed large — the condition of the tenements, the perils of the ghetto, the moral dangers of the kitchenette, the risks presented by too many bodies forced into the cramped rooms of the lodging house.
—Longreads, 20 July 2019
His father, Feodor, looked after the family farm and his mother, Berta, ran a lodging house on the property during the summer.
—Niklas Magnusson, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2018
His father, Feodor, looked after the family farm and his mother, Berta, ran a lodging house on the property during the summer.
—Fortune, 28 Jan. 2018
Nicole Trilivas, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Reserve a simple lodging house or a two-bedroom apartment.
—Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2024
While unwilling to engage with gangs of vacationing children, Anchorage police did arrest and jail one man for repeatedly leaving his lodging house.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2020
The response was sometimes harsh -- any lodging house where an infection appeared was burnt to the ground.
—Paul French, CNN, 18 Apr. 2020
Meanwhile, after Crossing Over left the Mount Vernon Street house and moved into the 29 Nutting St. triple-decker, a city inspector declared that Flagg was using the property as a lodging house, not allowed in his residential zone.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2019
Everything else loomed large — the condition of the tenements, the perils of the ghetto, the moral dangers of the kitchenette, the risks presented by too many bodies forced into the cramped rooms of the lodging house.
—Longreads, 20 July 2019
His father, Feodor, looked after the family farm and his mother, Berta, ran a lodging house on the property during the summer.
—Niklas Magnusson, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2018
His father, Feodor, looked after the family farm and his mother, Berta, ran a lodging house on the property during the summer.
—Fortune, 28 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lodging house
Noun
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Writer Wallace Thurman would throw parties at his rooming house, attracting a more bohemian crowd from Harlem and the Village.—
Shannon J. Effinger,
AFAR Media,
18 Mar. 2025
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Coney lived with his father in a rooming house next door.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Spending on airfares, restaurant meals, and hotels all fell last month, Friday’s report showed.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
27 June 2025
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In 2015, after Combs had beat her up in a Las Vegas hotel suite leaving her with black eyes, a bruised lip and welt on her head, Combs forced her to stay at his home, covering her injuries with makeup, to hide the abuse from his family.—
Laura Trujillo,
USA Today,
27 June 2025
Noun
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This fall, beer in hand, patrons at some of Sacramento’s finest public houses might legally wander out the front door and onto the city’s streets and plazas, moving freely between outdoor festivals and indoor hospitality.—
Annika Merrilees,
Sacbee.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Staying only in inns and public houses served both of these goals.—
Rachel Bernstein,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Apr. 2018
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“Lodging house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lodging%20house. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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