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boardinghouse

[ US /ˈbɔɹdɪŋˌhaʊs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests

How To Use boardinghouse In A Sentence

  • The bedroom at the top of the boardinghouse was a loft with two windows that looked up to the sky. Soul
  • There were four such flats in each building, and each of the four was a "boardinghouse" for the occupancy of foreigners -- Lithuanians, Poles, Slovaks, or The Jungle
  • Gitalis and I could sleep at the theatre overnight, and we could surely find a boardinghouse that would provide you ladies snug harbor. PAINT THE WIND
  • From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up. Middlesex
  • Impossible, also, to imagine him calling the boardinghouse again and again until finally Mrs. O’Toole said, “Listen, sugar. Middlesex
  • Even without the need to keep on the lookout for the neighbors as I made a mad dash to a waiting taxi, the boardinghouse had become nothing more than a crash pad.
  • Hotels and boardinghouses were sold out, and some halls and bars spread pallets upon their floors to accommodate wayworn arrivals. A Country of Vast Designs
  • Later I went to Breslau, the capital of our province, where I lived in boardinghouses and attended a Gerhart Hauptmann - Autobiography
  • He engaged in all-night poker games in boardinghouse rooms throughout the city.
  • The boardinghouse will be the fourth door on your left. Into the Thinking Kingdoms
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