boarding home
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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She landed in the hospital and then in a boarding home for adults with mental illness.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2018
Elizabeth Terry, 63, a caregiver who lives in a boarding home in the Verdugo mountains, has had to evacuate three times: a wildfire in 2016, another in 2017, then this week’s mudslides.
From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2018
“I had something very similar happen to me when I was boarding home last year,” one Redditor said in response to the above video.
From Slate • Nov. 12, 2017
When he was about 12, he moved to Children’s Village, a boarding home for at-risk children in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2015
"Lady wishes join another in dogs' boarding home; trial first as paying guest."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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