Sentence examples for of lodgers from inspiring English sources

Official statistics put the number of lodgers at more than 156,000.

Houses were full of lodgers and boarders to and fro – in our case mostly musicians, even a merchant sea captain.

Over the years, it has been host to any number of lodgers and guests – a sort of upmarket commune.

There was an obvious class bias at work: apparently no one considered the possibility of lodgers, sublets or roommates not on leases.

Jonathan Frolich, vice president for global brands at Hyatt Hotels Andazz line, said each of its hotels holds six to 10 "salon" events a year, which typically draw several dozen people — usually a mix of lodgers and local residents.

Sarah Waters' story of a widow and her daughter who take in a pair of lodgers in 1920s London, The Paying Guests, is the novel on the Baileys shortlist to have best held readers' attention, according to ebook retailer Kobo.

The move will mean the majority of lodger landlords will avoid paying tax altogether.

Reading a novel is a process of habitation – the reader becomes a sort of lodger under a novel's roof.

But from next month the tax-free allowance soars to £7,500 – enabling the majority of lodger landlords to wipe out any tax liability on this income.

When that kind of lodger is protected by the legal system, it takes a tough lawyer to run a decent flophouse.

A small cottage was built for him at the bottom of the garden of the family house in North Oxford, and young Ned essentially lived separately from his parents and siblings, almost as a kind of lodger, joining them for meals.