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hostel

[hos-tl] / ˈhɒs tl /
NOUN
lodging
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Another student, Aniket Singh, said outsiders had entered a women's hostel and knocked on doors claiming to be police officers.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

A few weeks ago, I met an acquaintance for coffee at a Cuban café attached to a downtown hostel, where people with backpacks of varying dimensions passed steadily through the lobby.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

The second time we met Laura from Italy, it was at a Henro hostel where she and Karen made pizza with telephonic help from Laura’s mother in Italy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Since then, I’ve corresponded with Nimblewill Nomad, the record holder and caretaker of a hostel at Flagg Mountain, the start of the Pinhoti Trail in Alabama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

And, still later, the news spread around campus of a strike by lecturers, and students gathered in the hostel foyer, bristling with the known and the unknown.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It’s church bells; bunk beds in 15-euro hostels; and some grand cities but also lots of tiny towns that exist because people with backpacks keep arriving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

They were soon joined by young, adventurous backpackers, who filled hostels and traveled on the cheap.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

The first U.S. case of Andes virus actually occurred in January 2018, in a woman who had stayed in cabins and youth hostels in the Andes region of Argentina and Chile.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

The pair left Derby in 2014 but said they were shocked to see the same people living in the homeless hostels on their return.

From BBC ● May 4, 2026

The agreement established an independent body to review police actions, created a mechanism to fence in the hostels, and banned the display of “traditional weapons” at rallies.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Her parental father and his family retinue, large and small, married and unmarried, were hosteled on the 12th floor of the Waldorf.

From Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' by Douglas (Douglas N.) Hay

When “Should I Stay or Should I Go” blasted from the sound system, it summarized my ambivalence toward the hostel — and about the haute hosteling concept in general.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2013

Created last year, the place represents a subtrend in haute hosteling: an offsite annex of swish private rooms set up by an established traditional hostel — in this case the Violeta Hostel.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2013

In fact he devoted a whole chapter of his guide to hostelling.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2018




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