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

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

When we got back to our boardinghouse, I felt as dirty as if I’d been riding behind the cap’n for a month.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis