boardinghouse
Example Sentences
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At Mrs. Riley’s boardinghouse, Ryui is taken under the wing of Torajiro “Jack” Baba, a cynical photographer with an avant-garde aesthetic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
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
All five of them shared a single room in a Ballard boardinghouse next to the restaurant where her father worked.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2023
Audrey and her mother eventually moved to a boardinghouse in Rhode Island, where the girl made her stage debut as one of five Dancing Dolls.
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2022
To get to the boardinghouse, they’d have to cross a little iron footbridge that spanned the river, but Coram didn’t go that way.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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