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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In 1950, a Joanne Smith, of the correct age of twenty, was working as a receptionist at a bank in Minneapolis, living in a rooming house.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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For example, in Milwaukee, the tourist rooming house license can be obtained through the Department of Neighborhood Services.—
Quinn Clark,
jsonline.com,
25 Dec. 2025
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On March 8, an Israeli strike hit a hotel in Beirut's Raouche district, a major seaside tourist area, killing four Iranian citizens.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Mar. 2026
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Most of that treatment has come courtesy of Alexandra Champalimaud, who previously waved her hard-to-define, contemporary-classic wand over the Plaza in New York and the Dorchester in London, among many other hotels.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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
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Both The Dining Room and the pub are true gathering places, reminiscent of the building’s days as a Revolutionary War-era public house.—
Lydia Mansel,
Southern Living,
13 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 31 Mar. 2026.
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