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How to use housemate in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Housemate means someone living in the same house. Example: “My housemate was very annoyed to find my friends padded out on the lounge room floor this morning.”

More sentences with housemate

  • My housemate was very annoyed to find my friends padded out on the lounge room floor this morning.From the entry pad out
  • When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the "maybe" pile, and the annoying guy on the "no" pile.From the entry pile
  • Many of the housemates had Jewish ancestry, but in lieu of Shabbos prayers they had invented their own secular rituals.2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 51. From the entry shabbos
  • You know those movies where the goofy housemate reads a book of spells on Halloween and hijinxs ensue?2018, L. J. McLeod, “The Perils of Having a Roommate Obsessed with the Occult on Hallows’ Eve”, in T. C. Phillips, editor, Behold the…. From the entry high jinks
  • Go live with Ginger and all her wacky housemates!1998, Alison Bechdel, Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For,, page 115. From the entry that's it
  • The housemates have several Discord channels, where they plan their weekly Dungeons & Dragons games, coördinate their food shopping, and discuss the childrens homeschooling.2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 51. From the entry coördinate
  • Sally Bercow 41, told fellow Celebrity Big Brother housemate Amy Childs she had no plans to get vejazzled, then teased: "My life is spicy enough."2011 August 20, “Celebrity Big Brother 2011: 'Spicy' Sally Bercow's Sex Life Slip-Up”, in Daily Star, UK. From the entry vajazzle
  • A strange game at the table involves oranges and kitchen implements flying as one or two bored housemates read or slide fetally under the table.2009 January 12, Gia Kourlas, Roslyn Sulcas, “Dance in Review”, in New York Times. From the entry fetally
  • When his housemates, two men and a woman, found them in flagrante delicto, one reported, “She said she didn’t want us to think of her as ‘that girl.’ ”2015 February 8, Naomi Schaefer Riley, “Columbia mattress rape case is not justice — it’s shaming without proof”, in New York Post. From the entry in flagrante delicto
  • Sometimes the dedicated slugabed is rudely awakened by the yelling of builders, the bustle of housemates, the entreaties of toddlers or even dawn's rosy figures coming in at the window.2004, Tom Hodgkinson, “8 a.m.: Waking Up is Hard to Do”, in How to Be Idle, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN; How to Be Idle: A Loafer’s…. From the entry slugabed

Meaning of housemate

  1. noun Someone living in the same house.

Full definition of housemate

Questions about housemate in a sentence

How do you use housemate in a sentence?
Housemate is used as a noun. For example: “My housemate was very annoyed to find my friends padded out on the lounge room floor this morning.”
What is a short sentence with housemate?
“Go live with Ginger and all her wacky housemates!”
What does housemate mean?
Housemate means someone living in the same house.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: housemate (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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