How to Use youth hostel in a Sentence

youth hostel

noun
  • That place wasn’t communal the way a lot of youth hostels were.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Céline attempts to move on, returning to her old job at a youth hostel.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 13 Feb. 2022
  • The second floor could become a youth hostel or boutique hotel.
    — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Until the 1980s, the villa was a youth hostel for school trips.
    — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The young man living in a youth hostel and tucking office pastries in doggy bags not long ago will have to learn how to be rich.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2021
  • Rajinikanth leads Coolie as Deva, a former labor leader who now runs a youth hostel.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Of lively nights in the community center that's the island's social hub and the location of a youth hostel for overnight stays.
    — Barry Neild, CNN, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The government created youth hostels and slashed train fares for vacationers.
    — Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2019
  • For the next three months, though, my evenings were regularly whiled away in cafes and youth hostels, sipping wine and arguing about art, politics and revolution.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
  • On that trip, McNally explored the island by bicycle, sleeping on the beach in Menemsha or in youth hostels.
    — Kate Betts, ELLE Decor, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Home to a youth hostel and folk museum, Glencoe is mostly a destination for outdoorspeople looking to kayak, mountain climb, go trekking, or pitch tents.
    — Timothy Latterner, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The Falwells and Granda later became business partners and offered Granda a share in a Miami youth hostel.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • To keep the trip under budget, the girls made the five-day journey across the Atlantic on the Queen Elizabeth in tourist class and stayed in youth hostels and campgrounds, while in Europe.
    — Margarita Cambest, baltimoresun.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • There are also ultra-cheap youth hostels like Tabi Tsumugi Backpackers with private rooms for less than $50 USD.
    — Brent Rose, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Overlooking the Place de la Nation, this new contemporary youth hostel offers bunk rooms alongside individual rooms with private bathrooms.
    — Washington Post, 23 July 2021
  • In May, Germany closed a youth hostel that was operating in what was originally North Korean diplomatic quarters.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2017
  • The government has arranged accommodation in hotels and youth hostels for the next few weeks, but finding more permanent accommodation for them in a city notorious for its tight housing market will be a challenge.
    — Shawna Kwan, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Glasnow has gone on at least one, and sometimes two, major trips every offseason for a decade or so, often traveling solo and staying in youth hostels during his minor league years before upgrading his accommodations as his big league income grew.
    — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • San Francisco supervisors Tuesday agreed to open a new homeless shelter for 250 people in a vacant youth hostel building just north of the Tenderloin.
    — J.d. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2022
  • San Francisco supervisors Tuesday agreed to open a new homeless shelter for 250 people in a vacant youth hostel building just north of the Tenderloin.
    — J.d. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Luxembourg City’s youth hostel, which is just one of more than 3,000 locations within the Hostelling International network, was extensive.
    — Erin Henk, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Lucy Josephs’s online search last year for lodging on the Adriatic coast led her to a youth hostel in Kotor, Montenegro, that stood out for exceptionally high online ratings from thousands of satisfied customers.
    — Harriet Torry, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2023

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