housemate

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Recent Examples of housemate The final straw came when the woman walked into their living room and found her housemate and her boyfriend being intimate with the door open. Ashley Vega, People.com, 21 June 2025 Upon discovering Harper's latest betrayal, Yasmin threw some hard truths in her housemate's face, only to be burned by even harsher words herself. Shania Russell, EW.com, 29 May 2025 Eventually, though, the two women became friends, then housemates. B. Pietras june 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025 At the series’ start, housemates Samir (Malik Ellasal), Billie (Lucy Freyer), Issa (Amita Rao) and Anton (Owen Thiele) all live together in Samir’s childhood home, a single-family residence deep in Queens. Alison Herman, Variety, 28 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for housemate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for housemate
Noun
  • But, much to her surprise, her roommate didn't seem miffed.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025
  • Conveniently, one of my college friends, Farrah, who was my first roommate in LA, had a friend who worked at a private member’s cigar lounge and restaurant.
    Ryan Coleman Updated, EW.com, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • The type of boy to break up fights at school and lecture his fellow classmates, Steeno added.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2025
  • His parents had worked with the school on measures to keep Benedict’s food safe, which included storing his oat milk separately from his classmates’ food, in the staff fridge.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • Once the fandom dies down, Wednesday reunites with Enid (Emma Myers), who is looking excitedly to a new year full of fun with her roomie.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 9 July 2025
  • That is particularly true of Victor’s transcendent depiction of an unbreakable bond between the smart and funny New England college professor Agnes (Victor) and her bestie and former college roomie Lydie (Naomi Ackie).
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • Oats, a 1-year-old Australian shepherd, was captured roaming the park in search of a playmate, by her owner @oatstheaussie.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025
  • LeBron James and new playmate Luca Dončić have given the Los Angeles Lake Show life.
    Jack Magruder, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Lionel Messi produced magic moments and his Inter Miami teammates exceeded expectations, as the MLS club went undefeated through three group games.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 14 July 2025
  • His teammates, Pato O'Ward and Christian Lundgaard, are both in the top five.
    Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • Shortly after Agnes starts the job, her closest friend Lydie (Naomi Ackie), an old schoolmate, comes to visit from New York.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 27 June 2025
  • If your friends, family, colleagues, schoolmates, etc. aren't there, the platform can't grow, and new members quickly become dormant.
    Mark Weinstein, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • According to the Navy, Peterson kept the ship operational and was credited with saving the lives of 123 of his shipmates before succumbing to his injuries.
    Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 27 June 2025
  • As with 1492: Conquest of Paradise four years earlier, Scott drinks in the majesty of open water, but the film doesn’t come fully to life until the title sequence, when the now-skilled and confident shipmates are humbled mercilessly by Mother Nature.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • In the days since the concert, a number of friends, family, and colleagues have asked me about it—mostly inquiring about the set list and the car prop malfunction.
    Leah Faye Cooper, Vogue, 4 July 2025
  • Together with his colleague Richard Wetherald at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, N.J., Manabe used a simple climate model to show that increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 would lead to more efficient trapping of heat in the troposphere.
    Ben Santer, Scientific American, 4 July 2025

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