boarding house

Example Sentences

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“Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” arguably the finest work in August Wilson’s 10-play series chronicling the African American experience in the 20th century, is set in a boarding house in Pittsburgh in 1911.

From Los Angeles Times

Jasmine stays at a Florida boarding house run by Lillian, who calls her new tenant Jazzy and helps her with bus fare to New York City.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was once a bustling community with Japanese boarding houses that offered affordable rent and home-cooked meals.

From Los Angeles Times

Recognising Nigeria's deeply religious society, Charterhouse also permits parents to take their children home from the boarding house for Sunday church services, with the expectation that they return by Monday morning.

From BBC

When this postcard was made, probably in the early 1950s, Deodar House had become a hotel/boarding house with “appointments and comforts of your own home in a magnificent five-acre setting ….”

From Los Angeles Times