How to Use boardinghouse in a Sentence

boardinghouse

noun
  • The sound of gunfire outside their cheap boardinghouse makes their children cry.
    — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Driscoll lived in boardinghouses to avoid cooking and house cleaning.
    — Elaine Louie, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Hines, 24, walked up to the ramshackle boardinghouse and gently knocked.
    — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Down the beach Madam LeFleur stood on the porch of her boardinghouse beating slugs off a yak wool rug.
    — Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Julie Adamo is Lulu, a young friend of Meg’s who drops into the boardinghouse.
    — Marcus Crowder, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Brosnan was shuttled between relatives and lived for a time in a boardinghouse.
    — G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Dec. 2023
  • This former boardinghouse clings to the side of the mountain, sneering at gravity.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2022
  • Quite a career for a girl who grew up in a boardinghouse with her grandmother on the wrong side of Hollywood.
    — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 6 May 2018
  • Her father was later a caretaker and her mother a laundress and the owner of a boardinghouse.
    — David Stout, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2021
  • The action takes place over a 24-hour period, from one morning to the next, and never moves from the boardinghouse.
    — Marcus Crowder, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Some lived in sailors’ boardinghouses along the Hudson River.
    — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 2 June 2023
  • The property had previously been used as a makeshift boardinghouse.
    — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 7 June 2022
  • Thomas Wolfe witnessed the suffering at his mother’s boardinghouse.
    — Patricia Clifford, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The boardinghouse is gone, and soon the bank building that stands in that location will be taken down, too, for a new residential building.
    — Matt McKinney, Star Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
  • After the Diddens moved away from Capitol Hill, the house was turned into a boardinghouse.
    — Kathy Orton, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Platter came from Basel, Switzerland, where his father ran a school, four boardinghouses, a farm, and a printing press.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a classic scene where her boardinghouse girlfriends, in preparation for the big night, teach her to slurp spaghetti without spattering the sauce.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2020
  • Holzer also said Lincoln was stripped of his clothes to check for other wounds when he was brought to the boardinghouse, yet the man in the picture is wearing a shirt.
    — David Bauder, Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
  • He was overcome by a gas leak in an Indianapolis boardinghouse in 1925.
    — Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 23 July 2021
  • Her mother was a domestic and a cook who later ran a boardinghouse, and her father, a former laborer, was a rent collector.
    — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The Duke Street property passed through many owners, serving as a hospital and boardinghouse.
    — Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
  • After her parents divorced, Miss Ramey moved to Cincinnati, where her mother ran a boardinghouse.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 4 July 2017
  • The rear of the boardinghouse faced the Lorraine Motel across Mulberry Street.
    — The Washington Post, AL.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • As always, verisimilitude and the supernatural exist side by side in this tale of the denizens of a boardinghouse in Pittsburgh.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 15 May 2026
  • In May 1925, he was overcome by a gas leak in an Indianapolis boardinghouse.
    — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Behind Jovan, the posse breaks into boardinghouses, yanks a miner from behind a grocery counter, shoots another dead in his home.
    — Masha Hamilton, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2026
  • His widow, Sarah, lived in the house for 36 years, running it as a boardinghouse during and after the Civil War.
    — Ann Banks, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Aug. 2020
  • In the Elmhurst area of Queens, for instance, many immigrant workers live in crowded boardinghouses where the virus is spreading rapidly.
    — Nicole Daniels, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Schoolchildren from the area were bused in and the town was filled with tourists watching re-enactors performing at the blacksmith camp, saloon, boardinghouse, butcher shop, school and church.
    — Peter Kujawinski, New York Times, 29 July 2019
  • According to legend, the apparition was a resident during the days when the building was used as a boardinghouse (and possibly a brothel).
    — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 27 Oct. 2021

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