How to Use roommate in a Sentence
roommate
noun
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The three returned to the plaintiff’s dorm, and the roommate went to bed.
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Michael Williams,
Dallas News,
27 Apr. 2023
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But the boys have had, like, more roommates in their lives.
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Lizzy Goodman,
New York Times,
24 Dec. 2023
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The woman in the room said her roommate tried to stop her from using the phone.
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cleveland,
27 Oct. 2022
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My roommate Kevin and I lived in this brick house in Georgetown.
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Evan Minsker,
Pitchfork,
19 Oct. 2023
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His son and a roommate share an apartment in the building struck by the plane, but weren’t home at the time of the crash.
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Laura Crimaldi,
BostonGlobe.com,
22 Oct. 2022
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Nell attempts to restart her life in a new place with a new job and a new roommate.
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Rodney Ho,
ajc,
6 Feb. 2023
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The fifth-wheel roommate in a home with a baby is not a tempting gig.
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Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
21 Sep. 2023
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Their dads played on the men's basketball team and their moms were roommates at the school.
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Skyler Caruso,
Peoplemag,
23 May 2024
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At the end of sophomore year of college, my roommates and I had back luck that turned out to be the best luck.
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Ryan Craig,
Forbes,
18 Oct. 2024
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On the night four college students were killed, a roommate saw a man clad in black walk through the home.
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Serge F. Kovaleski,
New York Times,
5 Jan. 2023
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Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.
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Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
20 May 2024
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DeBusschere, Bill’s roommate on the road, slept through most of that.
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John McPhee,
The New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2023
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Joe's roommate called the Lawrances to tell them that Joe had attempted to take his own life.
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Jim Axelrod,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2024
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The friend brought her sister, who brought her own friend who brought his roommate, Mary.
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Maya Tekeli,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2024
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It’s set to capture how the two went from roommates to lovers as Dean built his career.
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Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
30 Sep. 2024
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So, in 2015, Provost teamed up with his college roommate.
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Robyn A. Friedman,
BostonGlobe.com,
12 Sep. 2023
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She was found in her bedroom by her roommate, Paula Rudolph.
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Kaila Nichols,
CNN,
23 June 2024
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Around the same time, his roommate took another job and left the business.
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Georgann Yara,
The Arizona Republic,
11 Apr. 2024
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Invite your roommate to sit down for a meeting with you.
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Harriette Cole,
The Mercury News,
4 June 2024
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Two other roommates survived the stabbing, one of whom saw a masked figure in the house.
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Nadine El-Bawab,
ABC News,
17 May 2023
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As the car pulled into the driveway of the sorority house, light burst through the roommates' window.
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Audrey Conklin,
Fox News,
26 Sep. 2023
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Holmes plays Hailee, Carmen’s wild and iconic army brat roommate with a heart of gold.
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Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
11 July 2024
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And why would anyone want to share their home with ghostly roommates?
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Michelle Mastro,
Architectural Digest,
18 Oct. 2024
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In many ways, Lance holds up his end of the roommate bargain that comes with long-term partnership.
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Amy Dickinson,
Washington Post,
15 Oct. 2023
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At about the same time, the downstairs roommate heard noises from Goncalves’s room and thought Goncalves was playing with her dog.
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Meryl Kornfield,
Washington Post,
6 Jan. 2023
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Webb was the roommate of 75-year-old Dorothy Douglas, who was the subject of the welfare check that brought police to the Riverwest house.
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Elliot Hughes,
Journal Sentinel,
9 Dec. 2022
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Bazille’s roommate, is seated by the stairs.
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Jason Farago,
Town & Country,
28 Sep. 2022
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Reeve and Williams were roommates at Julliard and lifelong friends.
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Mike Ryan,
IndieWire,
20 Sep. 2024
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Likins also went on tour with Fleetwood Mac and was Nicks’ roommate for 10 years.
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USA TODAY,
13 Feb. 2024
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My roommate was the first one to tell me about just how high-quality this Spanish brand is.
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Kelly Klein,
Outside Online,
23 Dec. 2022
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