Example Sentences

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"Romanians have been so incredibly hospitable, opening their homes, putting them up in boarding houses and hotels, and taking care of them," he added.

From Fox News • Mar. 2, 2022

This idea that hotels are housing would have been really intuitive to people living in cities at the turn of the century—rooming houses, boarding houses, all of that was just part of the ecosystem.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2021

Soon, the pier was lengthened and a pavilion added, along with a promenade, gardens, theatre, cinema, boarding houses and a town centre.

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2021

Faced with widespread displacement of poor people during the redevelopment of Bunker Hill's Victorian boarding houses, the city rejected slum clearance of skid row.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2019

He says the men who work in the German cafeterias and hotels and boarding houses work every day, and that’s what Hirsch and Schillinger will look like.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron