LODGING in a Sentence

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They took a lodging in the house where I lived, for a week; at the expiration of which time they were to start for Plymouth.

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 Meanings and Examples of LODGING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lodging
 n.  accommodation; lodging
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Edward talks of going to Oxford soon," said she; "but now he is lodging at No.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38
2  It appeared to me that I could do no better than secure him some quiet lodging hard by, of which he might take possession when Herbert returned: whom I expected in two or three days.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XL
3  We were anxious for the time when he would go to his lodging and leave us together, but he was evidently jealous of leaving us together, and sat late.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLI
4  The Orfling was likewise accommodated with an inexpensive lodging in the same neighbourhood.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
5  They took a lodging in the house where I lived, for a week; at the expiration of which time they were to start for Plymouth.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
6  When we got to our journey's end, our first pursuit was to look about for a little lodging for Peggotty, where her brother could have a bed.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
7  We went back to the little lodging over the chandler's shop, and there I found an opportunity of repeating to Peggotty what he had said to me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
8  Not satisfied with all these proceedings, but burning with impatience to do something more, I went to see Traddles, now lodging up behind the parapet of a house in Castle Street, Holborn.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
9  He spoke of a traveller's house on the Dover Road, where he knew he could find a clean, plain lodging for the night.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 40. THE WANDERER
10  But he slept out of the house too, at his mother's lodging; and before I had gone many hundred yards, came up with me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
11  I go home, more incredulous than ever, to a lodging that I have hard by; and get up very early in the morning, to ride to the Highgate road and fetch my aunt.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
12  He kept a lodging over the little chandler's shop in Hungerford Market, which I have had occasion to mention more than once, and from which he first went forth upon his errand of mercy.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE
13  I took my dear child away last night,' Mr. Peggotty began, as he raised his eyes to ours, 'to my lodging, wheer I have a long time been expecting of her and preparing fur her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY
14  We had a temporary lodging in Covent Garden.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. TEMPEST
15  His first care on arriving in Paris had been to buy mourning clothes for a little girl of from seven to eight years of age; then to procure a lodging.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN...
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.
2  I shall continue to act as Adele's governess; by that I shall earn my board and lodging, and thirty pounds a year besides.
3  You get a big salary incentive and free board and lodging too.
4  The refugees are being lodged in an old army camp.
5  They lodged a compensation claim against the factory.
6  He lodged an appeal with the High Court.
7  Portugal has lodged a complaint with the International Court of Justice.
8  The lorry was lodged in a very precarious way, with its front wheels hanging over the cliff.
9  Surgeons are trying to remove a bullet lodged near his spine.
10  Perez still has a slug lodged in his left shoulder.
11  David had changed his lodgings, leaving no address behind.
12  From this window were visible the porter's lodge and the road.
13  The giant redwoods and high cliffs dwarf the elegant Ahwahnee Hotel, making it appear a modest lodge rather than an imposing hostelry.
14  We quickly lodge the children with relatives after the fire.
15  He'd already started construction on a hunting lodge.