How to Use roommate in a Sentence

roommate

noun
  • The three returned to the plaintiff’s dorm, and the roommate went to bed.
    — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • But the boys have had, like, more roommates in their lives.
    — Lizzy Goodman, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The woman in the room said her roommate tried to stop her from using the phone.
    — cleveland, 27 Oct. 2022
  • My roommate Kevin and I lived in this brick house in Georgetown.
    — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The second month rolled around, and my roommate didn’t have her share of the rent and claimed to have been laid off.
    — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • 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.
    — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Zuri Reed stars as tech-savvy Tasha, Jess' roommate and friend.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Nell attempts to restart her life in a new place with a new job and a new roommate.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The roommate left the house and called 911, officials said.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The fifth-wheel roommate in a home with a baby is not a tempting gig.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • No one knew about the plan ahead of time, except for his roommate and the friend who wrote it on his arm.
    — Alaina Demopoulos, Allure, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Their dads played on the men's basketball team and their moms were roommates at the school.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 23 May 2024
  • And most women didn’t want to live with male roommates.
    — Violet Piper, Curbed, 28 Jan. 2025
  • At the end of sophomore year of college, my roommates and I had back luck that turned out to be the best luck.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • On the night four college students were killed, a roommate saw a man clad in black walk through the home.
    — Serge F. Kovaleski, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 May 2024
  • Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 7 Aug. 2022
  • DeBusschere, Bill’s roommate on the road, slept through most of that.
    — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Joe's roommate called the Lawrances to tell them that Joe had attempted to take his own life.
    — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2024
  • The friend brought her sister, who brought her own friend who brought his roommate, Mary.
    — Maya Tekeli, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • It’s set to capture how the two went from roommates to lovers as Dean built his career.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Amie's roommate was jolted out of sleep by her screams.
    — CBS News, 12 Feb. 2022
  • So, in 2015, Provost teamed up with his college roommate.
    — Robyn A. Friedman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • She was found in her bedroom by her roommate, Paula Rudolph.
    — Kaila Nichols, CNN, 23 June 2024
  • Pearce lived on the second floor with a roommate — Brandt Osborn, 42.
    — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Her roommate called 911 and knocked on neighbors’ doors.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Around the same time, his roommate took another job and left the business.
    — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Invite your roommate to sit down for a meeting with you.
    — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
  • He was placed in an apartment with a roommate in Reservoir Hill.
    — Jean Marbella, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2022
  • And in that story there’s a kind of soccer-playing-bro type, who starts hooking up with his roommate, who’s femme.
    — Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2025

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