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boarding house

NOUN
  1. a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests

How To Use boarding house In A Sentence

  • Its central location, and its adjacence to several restaurants and boarding houses, rendered it a convenient place for business people to lodge, and the handsome widow found no trouble in filling her rooms with desirable and well-paying patrons. An Ambitious Man
  • The Merchant Shipping Act of 1823 replaced bonding with a law that confined Lascars to East India Company boarding houses and threatened those who did not board the next ship home with imprisonment for vagrancy.
  • Home for the next eight years was a series of boarding houses as she did the provincial seaside resorts and more repertory theatres. Times, Sunday Times
  • There's Mog Edwards, the draper in love with Miss Myfanwy Price; Polly Garter, the town prostitute in love with babies; and the formidable Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, twice widowed, who keeps a boarding house but will not have any guests in it lest they breathe on the furniture. A Gloriously Musical Play for Voices
  • A taxi brought us to a boarding house she knew, and we're shown into an apology for a bedroom.
  • The concession was granted as the Duke toured the new extension, which provides accommodation for 20 boarders at Wentworth House, a girl's boarding house.
  • Currently boarding houses, which the city officially calls congregated living spaces, are permitted for dwellings with up to 12 sleeping rooms and 24 occupants if parking and other standards are upheld. Kansan.com stories
  • But there are also tableaux from different eras, including holidaymakers at breakfast time in a Fifties boarding house and then the same trippers enjoying a cup of tea in a beachside bathing hut.
  • She is a wealthy English authoress living in and running a boarding house in Umbria, Italy.
  • This beautiful chateau had gone from a boarding house to a morgue in just one day.
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