rooming house
Example Sentences
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On a February day the next year, Galindo, part of a four-man raiding squad, went to a Figueroa Street rooming house to arrest Davis again.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2023
Georgia Kemp, a cook at the Elks Club, invited him to move into her rooming house at 20th Avenue and East Madison.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2023
She lived in a rooming house where people helped one another get by, lending money as they got paid on different days, making sure she could feed her daughter, she said.
From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022
At a rooming house, for example, tenants didn’t need to buy sheets and towels, dishes, or furniture.
From Slate • Jul. 17, 2022
I was one of the very few males in this rooming house.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
