paying guest

How to use paying guest in a sentence

• There was, moreover, an ambiguous, silent lady that my aunt subsequently decided must be a very deaf paying guest.

  Tono Bungay | H. G. Wells

• Our paying guest last summer was a Mrs. Pollock, and she was by way of having sudden fancies.

  The Diary of a Goose Girl | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

• Lady wishes join another in dogs' boarding home; trial first as paying guest.

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916 | Various

• He had secured a chair, but getting up, gave it to the royal personage, who was his paying guest at the Villa Bella Vista.

  The Guests Of Hercules | C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

• The English ally has ceased to be a stranger, and in the towns and villages of Artois is a “paying guest.”

  With the French in France and Salonika | Richard Harding Davis