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
Schwartz herself accomplishes something similar across the short subsections of each chapter, slowly and elegantly assembling a sprawling boardinghouse out of the twigs and branches of sometimes little-studied lives.
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2023
It seemed to tax all of Mrs. Wigginbottom’s strength to make an appearance up here on the third floor of her boardinghouse.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
