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n. (rooming house English)
Usage examples of "rooming houses".
At the wide end of the park, I turned right on Chester Street and walked through a neighborhood of rooming houses and apartment buildings.
I'm packing a federal badge, and heated lovers' quarrels in local rooming houses ain't federal, praise the Lord.
How many different rooming houses have we stayed in since we started the International Foto, Motion Picture, and Television Corporation of America?
By the time it was fully dark, she had sampled six different rooming houses.
She and Liu Mei had more space to themselves than they'd enjoyed back in the Peking rooming houses in which they'd lived, but that was the only advantage she could see.
He showed me rooming houses where he stayed, railroad hotels, poolhalls, diners, sidings where he jumped off the engine for grapes, Chinese restaurants where he ate, park benches where he met girls, and certain places where he'd done nothing but sit and wait around.
They still got a stroll there, they've had street prostitution in that same location for forty or fifty years, but now you're getting a lot of middle-class people moving in there, converting lofts for residential use, buying up the old brownstones and converting them back from rooming houses to nice homes.
He checked into one of the better rooming houses, paid for a week in advance, and went to his room, confident that he'd made a decent start.
He got a few jobs, remodeling rooming houses, an assignment that involved no more than erecting partitions and rearranging the plumbing.
In front of him was an untouched gourd of beer and around were noisy men, drinking or standing or dead drunk on benches, or heading homewards for their dormitories or rooming houses, or favorite bar or gambling rooms that crowded together here in a slum as bad or worse than any in London town.
Past the parkland where the bars and rooming houses had been, back when Margrave was honest.
As the cab pulled away, Mina watched Essie stroll down the street toward the rooming houses, walking faster now than before.
Young women, single, living alone in rooming houses in this neighborhood.
He had found no motels or rooming houses or any other likely hiding places for a fugitive.