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rooming house

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as in lodging house

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Recent Examples of rooming house In town there are rooming houses and cottages for one or two families, built for millworkers. — Literary Hub, 12 Feb. 2026 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 By the middle of the 20th century, the handsome brownstone had been chopped up into a rooming house, and in the early 1980s, it was reconfigured with one apartment on each of its five floors. — Mark David, Robb Report, 3 Dec. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for rooming house

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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.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 31 Oct. 2025
The concept borrows inspiration from the traditional lodging houses in Bombay, comfortable places often run by Parsi proprietors.

— Nicole Trilivas, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025

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The other option, pushing the Super Bowl back a week, was initially rejected because New Orleans, the host city, had booked an automobile dealers’ convention that had gobbled up most of the desirable hotel rooms.

— Michael Silver, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
There’s this scene in a hotel, where the narrator is a teenager, and is sleeping in the same hotel room with his parents, with the father basically forcing the mother to have sex.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026

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