How To Use Lodger In A Sentence
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There were examples of mothers who iced cakes, kept chickens, and (as with the women graduates) took in laundry and lodgers to help with finance.
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"Such," says an official report, "is the lack of houseroom in the city that any kind of tenement can be immediately crowded with lodgers, if there is space."
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I could use this to boost my deposit and perhaps take in a lodger as well.
Times, Sunday Times
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And she never did understand it until one day she learned that her lodger was the "very young man who had been to the war in the Philippines, and writ about his battles in the Enterprise.
The Adventures of a Boy Reporter
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There were examples of mothers who iced cakes, kept chickens, and (as with the women graduates) took in laundry and lodgers to help with finance.
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Some of the early ledgers show the changing post-war society by denoting whether someone is a house-owner, lodger or servant.
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I had a friend who was a lodger and was given plastic crockery and cutlery to use.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a boarder, a lodger for the greater part of his life in the house of a wealthy English merchant.
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If you don't want a long-term lodger, consider instead a short-term homestay.
The Guardian World News
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For several reasons these ended in 1976, leaving me dependent on rent from lodgers to whom I sublet rooms in my council house, having some to spare because my wife and I had separated.
Alasdair Gray: My life in pictures
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He rapidly crept through the large room and down the steps, and on the ground floor ran up against one of the lodgers in the caravansera.
Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
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Every foot of floor space was given over to these lodgers and scores were still unaccommodated.
THE TRAMP
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The boarders and lodgers bill has been stalled in one form or other since 1987.
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Jill and Sue are at variance over/about their lodger.
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Having one lodger is one thing; discovering that they are cohabiting with their partner under your roof may be quite another.
Times, Sunday Times
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Check your mortgage conditions, as some lenders require that you notify them if you take on a lodger.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is sufficient to know that the name to which I do myself the honour to refer, will ever be treasured among the muniments of our house (I allude to the archives connected with our former lodgers, preserved by Mrs. Micawber), with sentiments of personal esteem amounting to affection.
David Copperfield
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We have decided to take in lodgers to help pay the mortgage.
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I recently took in my brother's friend as a temporary lodger in my house because she is away from home for six months.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the present case it is conceded that Mrs Mountford is entitled to exclusive possession and is not a lodger.
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By this stage we had reached the house where I lodged and as we walked in the front door, both carrying a cardboard box, one of the other female lodgers did a double take.
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Jane Bennet and Charles Bingley, the new lodger at Netherfield, fall for each other.
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The maid realised that there was a good chance that she could be face to face with the room's lodger.
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However, lodgers tend to be grown-ups who go out to work, pay their rent and toddle off out with their friends for the evening (if you choose carefully).
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Why not go the whole hog and make them take in a stranger as a lodger?
The Sun
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My lodger served me a bottle of ice-cold ginger beer at lunch last week.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jennie took in a lodger to help with the mortgage.
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A nice come-down for you, I must say, that was raised straight an 'right, a-cuttin' up didoes with a lodger.
CHAPTER XIV
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She also plans to get another lodger in (like we're not too cramped already) which means turfing me and my computer out of the spare room and cramming everything I own into one room.
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She imagined that her lodger was a young lady who for some reason had run away from her friends.
Fan : the story of a young girl's life
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The more downbeat and slight Lloyd, meanwhile, is the family's lodger, who, while a trifle dozy, at least brings some money into the house courtesy of his job at a local factory.
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One month's rent from her lodger pays her 640 annual storage fee.
Times, Sunday Times
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After that, things began to change, and some of our lodgers left us to resume their former lives or to begin new ones elsewhere.
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When such rooms can be rented for from three to six shillings per week, it is a fair conclusion that a lodger with references should obtain floor space for, say, from eightpence to a shilling.
MY LODGING AND SOME OTHERS
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Though they received a portion of their husband's salaries, sailors' wives still had to rely on various types of work such as making supplies or packing goods for the Company, or taking in lodgers.
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Meanwhile of those flats/houses secured under the 38% [& believe me they went for it] most are instantly divided into matchboard cells, so a 2 bed flat can fit six - eight lodgers in .... who invariably sub-sub let & as they are transient with their landlords elsewhere usually managed by agents councils & tenants [LBTH] are subjected to an avalanche of abuses too obvious to itemise.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
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Of course it is the mother and the two lodgers who were responsible for the appalling crimes against this child - but what about those bit-part players who never even played their small part in intervening to improve and save a life?
Public Officials Did Not Kill “Baby P” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Having one lodger is one thing; discovering that they are cohabiting with their partner under your roof may be quite another.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is it possible that he stays put but takes in a lodger or two to cover costs, for example?
The Sun
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These lodgers, however, did not know about Gregor.
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But why not just rent the room out to a lodger?
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Eventually it becomes clear to him that Sarah has simultaneously been carrying on a flirtation with another lodger.
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The devices named include disposable arthroscopic surgery blades and burrs, non-electric biopsy forceps, ureteral stone dislodgers, and sagittal saw blades.
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She wants to move another lodger in effectively relegating me to one final room in the house, my bedroom.
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You could, though, take in a lodger.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nearly twice as many homeowners have a lodger renting a second bedroom compared with five years ago.
The Sun
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It's your space so you can decide what sort of lodger you want - young student, mature student, employee, male, female.
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Wilson had not been long in the tailor's cottage before Sim seemed to grow uneasy under a fresh anxiety, of which his lodger was the subject.
The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance
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An occupier of residential accommodation at a rent for a term is either a lodger or a tenant.
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However odd he might be, Mrs. Bunting never forgot her lodger was a gentleman.
The Lodger
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Nearly twice as many homeowners have a lodger renting a second bedroom compared with five years ago.
The Sun
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If you take in a lodger, you must tell your mortgage lender or landlord, to ensure you are not breaching the terms of your mortgage or lease.
The Sun
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The boxes can be variously configured, whether into a two-story wildlife B&B or a high-rise hotel, to suit your apian lodgers 'every need.
Fast Company
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If you have a spare room, put it to work for you - take in a lodger.
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For those who have no savings and cannot take in a lodger, more radical measures could be considered.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nearly twice as many homeowners have a lodger renting a second bedroom compared with five years ago.
The Sun
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The lodger has moved out, leaving me three hundred quid a month short.
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However, he consoled himself with what was in truth a rare consolation for a budding lover, that he was under the same roof with Lizzy; her guest, in fact, to take a poetical view of the term lodger; and that he would certainly see her on the morrow.
Wessex Tales
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Vicky's lodger, Henry, helps her efforts as she struggles to present a new stream-lined version of herself to a handsome book buyer.
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And it would say that these are the darkest days yet because, in recent times, the beleaguered Griffin has left much of the heavy lifting within the party – the fundraising, admin etc – to his very good friend, the virulent anti-abortionist and Orange lodger Jim Dowson.
Diary
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Myra had taken in lodgers as a means of increasing her income and had started taking in laundry to make a few more coppers to help feed her growing family.
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Meanwhile of those flats/houses secured under the 38% [& believe me they went for it] most are instantly divided into matchboard cells, so a 2 bed flat can fit six - eight lodgers in .... who invariably sub-sub let & as they are transient with their landlords elsewhere usually managed by agents councils & tenants [LBTH] are subjected to an avalanche of abuses too obvious to itemise.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
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The constable, the landlord, and a curious neighbor went upstairs to arrest the lodger.
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The new lodger, rather shoutingly dressed but looking superbly handsome, stepped with courtly carnage into the trim little breakfast-room and put out all his cordial arms at once, like one of those pocket-knives with a multiplicity of blades, and shook hands with the whole family simultaneously.
Those Extraordinary Twins
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Other releases of note: the debut from The Mynabirds, featuring Laura Burhenn (formerly of locals Georgie James); "Fearless Love" by Melissa Etheridge; some wonderful vintage indie-pop from the Lodger on Slumberland Records; and excellent get-the-point garage rock from Unnatural Helpers on Hardly Art. (The label named after a lyric from the best Thermals song, of course.)
Week ahead: My Morning Jacket at Merriweather, Hole finally releases new CD
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Nearly twice as many homeowners have a lodger renting a second bedroom compared with five years ago.
The Sun
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though they do say she overcharges and underfeeds her lodgers.
The Silent House
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Keep your thumb on that," said he; "I'm not supposed to precognosce every lodger in Tynree upon his politics.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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Critics fear it will spark a shortage of accommodation if widows, divorcees and groups of singles drop plans to take in lodgers.
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She does not like the movie her mother's lodger (and her own frustrated suitor) has, in a fit of petty spite, given her mother and her free tickets to see.
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He has the shop and the lodgings above and makes a good living out of collecting rent payments - when his lodgers pay up on time.
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Amy had soon rallied up all of the lodgers at Anne's boarding home.
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If only there'd been a forum for me to vent my spleen when I had a sponging twat of a lodger a few years back.
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A distinguished German-born costume and prop designer who spent her last years presiding over a rambling lodger-filled Victorian mansion in Leeds, Pfaffinger cut a dottily stylish figure, sporting well into middle age a daily uniform of platform boots and pink boiler suit which belied her perfectionism and nun-like dedication to her craft.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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In fact, these are often the best type of lodger because they go home at weekends!
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In his first staged play, we see the banal existence of a boarding-house lodger ripped apart by psychological torture.
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All of the wealthy families had house guests and almost every farmhouse and cottage had arranged to have lodgers.
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The couple were held to be living apart: their relationship was that of a landlady and lodger only.
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Why not go the whole hog and make them take in a stranger as a lodger?
The Sun
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Our lodger is busy canvassing for her candidate and I kind of envy her youthful enthusiasm and lack of cynicism.
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If you have a lodger, not only is the first £20 disregarded but also 50% of the balance of payment from each boarder where meals are provided.
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We went on being very sorry about Miss Sandal being so poor, and it was not our fault that when we tried to let the house in lodgings, the first lodger proved to be a lunatic of the deepest dye.
New Treasure Seekers
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The distinction between lodger and lover has already proved tricky enough to lose a decent government minister his job over an expenses claim.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a man of property, but chose to live as a lodger in London.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a lodger in your house?
The Sun
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The sergeant, getting a pair of scissors, soon freed the car from its encumbrance, upon which the householder and the lodgers burst into loud guffaws of laughter.
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I had a friend who was a lodger and was given plastic crockery and cutlery to use.
Times, Sunday Times
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A tall fellow, growing a little stooped: silent, unobliging, unsociable; yet a good lodger in his way, in that he paid his rent, and never disturbed families below him with the carousals and other performances common to young bachelors.
The Genius
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But a lodger at the house saw her take a container with the curry out of the fridge earlier in the day.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another early lodger was the American physicist Don Page.
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Delivering babies, like taking in boarders and lodgers, allowed her to contribute to the domestic economy and still take care of her family's needs.
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Should we take a lodger?
Get the Best out of the Rest of Your Life
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The distinction between lodger and lover has already proved tricky enough to lose a decent government minister his job over an expenses claim.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the tenements of the Bend - three, four, and five stories each - families and solitary lodgers, who paid five cents apiece for floor space, crowded together in airless cubicles.
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Aw dooant think it does bi 'th' luk on thi, if tha gooas on tha'll be able ta tak a lodger i 'that suit o' clooas, tha'll ha room enuff, -- but tak care o 'thisen, lad.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
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The North London pair were convicted with their lodger of appalling cruelty.
The Sun
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The new lodger, rather shoutingly dressed but looking superbly handsome, stepped with courtly carriage into the trim little breakfast-room and put out all his cordial arms at once, like one of those pocket-knives with a multi-plicity of blades, and shook hands with the whole family simultaneously.
The Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins
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If you are struggling with mortgage payments and bills you could take in a lodger.
Times, Sunday Times
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My mother had been right to bank on the choleric lodger; he was an upwardly mobile man.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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Women earned money by washing, sewing, and taking in lodgers.
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Nearly twice as many homeowners have a lodger renting a second bedroom compared with five years ago.
The Sun
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He peels the spuds, digs the garden and with a virginal innocence shifts his affections from the daughter to the mother; yet he is also quietly scathing about the journeyman daubs of his fellow lodger.
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They have another lodger, Nemo, who is a mysterious figure: a law-writer by trade, but a self-destructive opium addict by nature.
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I told him I knew where there was a lady who occasionally admitted an inmate to her house, which was a large one, but she must be satisfied that her lodger is a gentleman.
Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 2
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The landlady, in her moments of good humor, used to assert her belief that her lodger was a disguised prince; but if this were the case, he was certainly one that had been overtaken by poverty.
Caught in the Net
