How to Use roommate in a Sentence

roommate

noun
  • Who would make for the best roommate?
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The roommates went out back and called his name.
    — Julie Mendes, AZCentral.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • So your roommate, whose name was.
    — Laura Isensee, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The roommates have shown Rice a lot.
    — Idaho Statesman, 3 Jan. 2026
  • One of the roommates needed a place to stay as well.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • But once, my roommate had hung this hideous rack of dusty old spices above the stove.
    — Alyse Whitney, Saveur, 25 Mar. 2026
  • His roommate was out playing cards with some friends.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Jan. 2026
  • My roommates and all my other math friends didn’t know.
    — Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 13 May 2026
  • Renteria tried to close it, and the roommate opened it again.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Those of us with singing roommates are willing to spend a lot more.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
  • By the end of the night the roommate gave him all of their phone numbers.
    — Rachel O'Neal, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2021
  • So my roommate and I had to get scrappy.
    — Meagan Francis, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025
  • 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 fifth-wheel roommate in a home with a baby is not a tempting gig.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The woman in the room said her roommate tried to stop her from using the phone.
    — cleveland, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Rizzi works on cases with a friend, her college roommate.
    — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
  • If a roommate leaves dishes for days, you’re allowed to point that out!
    — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The roommate spoke to police just hours after the killings.
    — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The three returned to the plaintiff’s dorm, and the roommate went to bed.
    — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • But when the food arrived, her roommate’s tone shifted once more.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Their dads played on the men's basketball team and their moms were roommates at the school.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 23 May 2024
  • 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
  • The friend brought her sister, who brought her own friend who brought his roommate, Mary.
    — Maya Tekeli, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The nurse called the priest to do an exorcism on the house and bless the nurse and her roommate.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Anu already knows who their roommate will be — the same friend who came out to them in freshman year.
    — Malavika Kannan, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2021
  • My behavior may have alarmed my roommates.
    — Ivy Nelson, Pitchfork, 6 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Zuri Reed stars as tech-savvy Tasha, Jess' roommate and friend.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2022
  • When sharing a space with roommates or a partner, shoes can pile up quickly.
    — Lauren Arzbaecher, Architectural Digest, 30 Dec. 2025

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