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Definition of rooming house in English: rooming housenoun North American A lodging house. 寄宿舍 Example sentencesExamples - They had never had a proper home as a family in Germany: touring with the dance company and staying in rooming houses, the children living most of the time with their grandmother and great-aunts, away from the parents.
- The rooming houses where many of New York's single men lived also often accommodated gay men as tenants, respecting their privacy and permitting them to bring home male visitors.
- She located there with her boyfriend; they having resided in a previous rooming house with shared accommodations.
- The rooming houses and cafeterias that did admit them were always on the wrong side of the tracks.
- There is a perpetual need for low-income housing in Toronto, and many people embrace the transient lifestyle rooming houses offer.
- I hadn't been to this area in close to fifteen years, and the modest rooming house where I'd stayed the last time was boarded up and abandoned when I got there.
- There were no rooming houses and although Mary offered to let him sleep in the supply room on the floor, he preferred the straw of the stable.
- The older, centrally located colonial houses are now occupied by offices or have been turned into rooming houses or hotels.
- I should have spun on my heels and ran when he slipped the key into the lock of that shabby rooming house.
- We had one project where we took a rooming house and renovated it and we ran into a lot of unforeseen costs, dealing with code issues.
- On our first visit to a downtown rooming house, the residents know him by name.
- She moves into a rooming house with a moronic landlady and fends off advances from her fellow tenant, a drunken fool.
- Most often, these early immigrants would live together in crowded rooming houses or primitive hostels in urban centers of the industrial northeastern United States.
- He roamed between jobs and rooming houses before working for the US postal service for 10 years.
- Last week we focused on personal safety, why homeless people are often fined for breaches of local by-laws and minor public order offences; and the legal rights of those living in rooming houses and other marginal accommodation.
- Initially, single or married men were likely to immigrate alone, living in crowded quarters or rooming houses, saving their money and sending large amounts back to Poland.
- He drops out of school, moves into a rundown rooming house, telling no one his new address, and spends his time drinking and bar fighting.
- Over the last two years, the city's shelters and rooming houses have gradually become severely infested with bedbugs.
- Even when these laws were gone, there were hotels, rooming houses and restaurants that refused to serve, bus and train operators that refused passage.
- It's the tale of a pensioner and the quirky tenants in his rooming house, acting out a colourful meditation on the joy of being alive.
Definition of rooming house in US English: rooming housenounˈro͞omiNG ˌhousˈrumɪŋ ˌhaʊs North American A private house in which rooms are rented for living or staying temporarily. Example sentencesExamples - The rooming houses and cafeterias that did admit them were always on the wrong side of the tracks.
- They had never had a proper home as a family in Germany: touring with the dance company and staying in rooming houses, the children living most of the time with their grandmother and great-aunts, away from the parents.
- Last week we focused on personal safety, why homeless people are often fined for breaches of local by-laws and minor public order offences; and the legal rights of those living in rooming houses and other marginal accommodation.
- We had one project where we took a rooming house and renovated it and we ran into a lot of unforeseen costs, dealing with code issues.
- I should have spun on my heels and ran when he slipped the key into the lock of that shabby rooming house.
- It's the tale of a pensioner and the quirky tenants in his rooming house, acting out a colourful meditation on the joy of being alive.
- There is a perpetual need for low-income housing in Toronto, and many people embrace the transient lifestyle rooming houses offer.
- On our first visit to a downtown rooming house, the residents know him by name.
- She located there with her boyfriend; they having resided in a previous rooming house with shared accommodations.
- He roamed between jobs and rooming houses before working for the US postal service for 10 years.
- The rooming houses where many of New York's single men lived also often accommodated gay men as tenants, respecting their privacy and permitting them to bring home male visitors.
- I hadn't been to this area in close to fifteen years, and the modest rooming house where I'd stayed the last time was boarded up and abandoned when I got there.
- Over the last two years, the city's shelters and rooming houses have gradually become severely infested with bedbugs.
- Most often, these early immigrants would live together in crowded rooming houses or primitive hostels in urban centers of the industrial northeastern United States.
- He drops out of school, moves into a rundown rooming house, telling no one his new address, and spends his time drinking and bar fighting.
- There were no rooming houses and although Mary offered to let him sleep in the supply room on the floor, he preferred the straw of the stable.
- The older, centrally located colonial houses are now occupied by offices or have been turned into rooming houses or hotels.
- Even when these laws were gone, there were hotels, rooming houses and restaurants that refused to serve, bus and train operators that refused passage.
- Initially, single or married men were likely to immigrate alone, living in crowded quarters or rooming houses, saving their money and sending large amounts back to Poland.
- She moves into a rooming house with a moronic landlady and fends off advances from her fellow tenant, a drunken fool.
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