rooming house

Definition of rooming housenext

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Recent Examples of rooming house 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 His parents ran a luncheonette and rooming house near factories whose immigrant workers came in to eat. David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rooming house
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Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • The hotel’s clientele reflects the international sailing crowd moored in Vinogradišće Bay, most of which hails from the UK, the US, and Scandinavia.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Advocates for Baltimore's homeless community are calling on Maryland's General Assembly to investigate living conditions at several hotels the city purchased and turned into shelters.
    Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026

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“Rooming house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rooming%20house. Accessed 26 Aug. 2026.

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