boardinghouse
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Jones, who was so brilliant in Daniel’s production of “King Hedley II” at A Noise Within is just as luminous here as the calming force at the boardinghouse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2025
Another is Marie-Christine Lippman, whose family foundation runs a boardinghouse on land owned by Sothea’s family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
Based on the 1979 novel of the same name by William Styron, this Academy Award-nominated film follows the increasingly intersected lives of three residents in a Brooklyn boardinghouse in 1947.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
In the 1940s, the mansion was converted to a boardinghouse, then it fell into disrepair.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
He scooped up his dæmon and she attended to the scalp wound, licking and cleaning him tenderly as they walked back to their boardinghouse.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
Bed-and-breakfast hotels turned into cheap boardinghouses, attracting Britain’s sickest and poorest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Tourists jammed hotels and boardinghouses, but they were not the only newcomers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
Activities at recreational camps and boardinghouses were limited by the presence of wildfires in parts of the country, and the industry still hasn’t fully recovered after the declines recorded in May and June.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023
He sleeps in boardinghouses and sometimes rough, in the local cemetery.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2020
But when they had scoured the waterfront boardinghouses, Prince shook his head over their scourings.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
