boardinghouse

Example Sentences

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Eventually, Frieda leaves and moves into Gulls Nest, a seaside boardinghouse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

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

Years later, she expressed regret about the way she had depicted a Black character who lives at the boardinghouse with the protagonist.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024

Meanwhile, she took odd jobs, working as a maid at a boardinghouse, an office clerk, a stock clerk, a secretary in the state grain office and an assistant in a lawyer’s office.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2023

In the next picture the oak tree outside my aunt’s boardinghouse is captured, in grease pencil, at change of season, the leaves all reds and golds.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse