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How to use hostel in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun, verb

Hostel means an overnight lodging place for travelers, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel. Example: “I had an early dinner because the breakfast in this hostel is superb.”

Examples of hostel by meaning

nounAn overnight lodging place for travelers, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.

  • a rundown hostel
  • Instead he was going to remain in the small room in the Santa Marta hostel in the Vatican where he had stayed during the conclave.2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian

More sentences with hostel

  • I had an early dinner because the breakfast in this hostel is superb.From the entry breakfast
  • Sometimes they used to hide in our hostels, trying to run away from the police.2015 July 14, Debajani Mohanty, The Curse of Damini, Partridge Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry krantikari
  • Visitors can explore the Calf as day visitors or can stay in the hostel accommodation. . .2010 Kate Hawkins Calf of Man. In: Bird Observatories of Britain and Ireland, ed Mike Archer, Mark Grantham, et al. →ISBN (pages unnumbered). From the entry calf
  • Fury at plan to site homeless hostel near top Capital school.2006, The Scotsman (15 Dec 06). From the entry site
  • In cybersavvy Dublin, public-access terminals are in shopping malls, hotels, and hostels throughout the city center.2006, Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Frommer's Ireland from $90 a Day. From the entry cybersavvy
  • In hostels, everyone is expected to wash and dry his or her own dishes.2005, Susan Griffith, “In Extremis”, in Work Your Way around the World, 12th edition, Oxford, Oxon: Vacation Work, →ISBN, page 564. From the entry dishy
  • He then asked the hostel owners whether he could set up as a ‘dishy’ for tips only.2005, Susan Griffith, “In Extremis”, in Work Your Way around the World, 12th edition, Oxford, Oxon: Vacation Work, →ISBN, page 564. From the entry dishy
  • It is having all the showers busy in your hostel at 2 a.m.2004 April, “Let's enjoy life in this crazy and unique city”, in Varsity. From the entry happy corner
  • The hostel for refugee students will take care of our food, housing, school and a job.1981, Hualing Nieh Engle, translated by Jane Parish Yang and Linda Lappin, Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China, Boston: Beacon Press…. From the entry Chungking
  • Tuppence's hostel was situated in what was charitably called Southern Belgravia.1922, Agatha Christie, chapter 1, in The Secret Adversary. From the entry Belgravia
  • You only had to see the pictures of Brenda visiting the homeless hostel to know that she was bottling back tears.2002 February 13, Heretic, “Re: Old Gin Slugger is dead.”, in uk.current-events.n-ireland (Usenet). From the entry Brenda
  • I liked the streets best, so I walked and stared, and slept in a Salvation Army hostel for indigents.1975, Robertson Davies, World of Wonders, Penguin Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 161. From the entry indigent
  • Passing the North Strome hostel I came by Slumbay to Lochcarron village, that used to be known as Jeantown.a. 1966, David E[rnest] T[omlinson] Bell, “Lost by Loch Eil”, in P. Blane, S. J. Hourston, J. B. Gambles, compilers, The Highway Man […]…. From the entry Slumbay
  • One of the broadcast receivers which are provided at all L.M.S.R. trainmen's hostels is seen in the background.1947 March and April, “L.M.S.R. Hostels for Trainmen”, in Railway Magazine, page 92, photo caption. From the entry recreation room
  • Within a while the hostel master, Sir Kondo came with his cane and they quietly walked out of the hostel claiming to be unfloggable.2006, Christian Ozim, The Miscreants (page 31). From the entry unfloggable
  • There are inter-war bungalows, and they, too, have their parentage, tracing a genealogy to that Indian roadside hostel, the bangalo, the Gujerati meaning simply 'of Bengal'.2015, Fiona Farrell, The Villa at the Edge of the Empire, →ISBN, page 265. From the entry bangalo
  • After a while Sir Erling's armsbearer came out and said that his master requested they wait for him at the hostel -- their horses stood ready in the courtyard.2005, Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter, →ISBN. From the entry armsbearer
  • The new generation avoided fixed itineraries, stayed in cheap hotels or hostels, and (unaffected by the lipophobia of later generations) lived on bread, cheese, and paté.1998, Harvey A Levenstein, Seductive journey: American tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age. From the entry lipophobia
  • It was originally built as a zaviye, or hostel, for members of the Ahi Brotherhood of Virtue; later it became an imaret, serving free food to the poor of Iznik.2000, John Freely, The Companion Guide to Istanbul and Around the Marmara, page 383. From the entry imaret

Meaning of hostel

  1. noun An overnight lodging place for travelers, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.
  2. noun A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.
  3. noun A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.

Full definition of hostel

Questions about hostel in a sentence

How do you use hostel in a sentence?
Hostel is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I had an early dinner because the breakfast in this hostel is superb.”
What is a short sentence with hostel?
“a rundown hostel”
What does hostel mean?
Hostel means an overnight lodging place for travelers, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.

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