as in rooming house
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Recent Examples of lodging house
The backyard of the lodging house on Hanbury Street, where Annie Chapman died, had three possible exits through neighboring yards; there were five at Mitre Square, where forty-six-year-old Catherine Eddowes bled out in a dark corner.
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Literary Hub, 31 Oct. 2025
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.
—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
Literary Hub, 31 Oct. 2025
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lodging house
Noun
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The real estate agents said that a single-family home would essentially become a rooming house with unrelated tenants sharing living spaces that are normally overseen by zoning regulations.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
16 Apr. 2026
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Police said a woman was stabbed multiple times inside a rooming house on the 5500 block of West Girard Avenue in West Philly on Sunday.—
Tom Ignudo,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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That program has been moving thousands of residents into hotels and motels, a fourth of whom are in permanent housing.—
David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2026
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Impressively, 94% of the property’s waste avoids landfill— miraculous for a hotel of this size—with it either being recycled, donated, or made use of in the hotel grounds.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 May 2026
Noun
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Listen to Live Music Cedar Mountain Outpost is a little bit of everything—deli, wine shop, public house, and live music venue, improbably set within a gas station.—
Belinda Luksic,
Southern Living,
1 May 2026
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Cole’s, the city’s longest-running public house and alleged creator of the French dip sandwich, will shut its doors March 29.—
Stephanie Breijo,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Mar. 2026
Noun
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If one were to use that fundamental mathematical principle — often referenced as if A=B and B=C then A=C — entering Thursday’s Class 4A state football quarterfinal, things did not look promising for Hill-Murray but did for Kasson-Mantorville.—
Mike Cook,
Twin Cities,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Lodging house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lodging%20house. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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