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

Based on the 1979 novel of the same name by William Styron, this Academy Award-nominated film follows the increasingly intersected lives of three residents in a Brooklyn boardinghouse in 1947.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2023

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

How disappointed she would be to see my room at my aunt’s boardinghouse —a perilous stack of tinned peaches and corned beef hash, a nest of an unmade bed.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse