People sharing an apartment

Usage examples of flatmates.

Her flatmates Mandy and Debby flitted fanciably about the place, half-dressed, serving me coffee with the reverence due to a moneyman and debt-settler.

The lies which she has told her flatmates about her mythical boyfriend make her curl with embarrassment.

After two months she knows no one except her flatmates and people in the officeand she never feels at ease with them.

In Kilburn, or West Hampstead as her flatmates insist on calling it, Sue twists her head to see the dial of her alarm clock.

People like her flatmates never worry about God and rejoice in their bodies.

Life will be easier if she shares a flat: flatmates can be persuaded to keep out of the way.

She cannot get used to putting her name on all her food cartons in the fridge, or preparing a meal while one of her flatmates is eating at the same table.

The worst occasions are when one of her flatmates brings a boyfriend home.

Each time she hopes that her flatmates will not question her the following morning.

Fortunately her flatmates were not interested enough to ask where the restaurant was.

Her flatmates would think it odd if she took a pile of textbooks on her dates.

Sometimes she suspects that the only reason her flatmates tolerate her is because she does the cleaning.

Sue savours the opportunity to do what she wants while her flatmates are out.

Saturday treat is to lie in till half past eight, savouring the indulgence and knowing that her flatmates will not surface until lunchtime.

Sue suspects that her flatmates already think of her as a Miss Pinker.