(1) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
(2) Just five weeks later - following persistent noise complaints from all the neighbours, following a written complaint from the primary school whose playground backs on to the flat, following a police visit to break up a fight between him and his flatmate - he has been evicted.
(3) It was, ironically, where I felt most at home – all my friends, my boyfriend, my flatmates, were white.
(4) But to afford the rent, she had to find a flatmate.
(5) He said at the time that the experience left him feeling as if he had been little more than a flatmate to Sir Nigel in the eyes of the law.
(6) The water and gas had been shut off for days when Lessena M and his flatmates, a group of asylum seekers from Ivory Coast who have been living in Naples for more than a year, decided to stage a protest.
(7) Broad City adds extra empathy into the mix: Abby and Ilana may be rubbish employees, girlfriends and flatmates, but at least they care about each other, unlike the girls of Girls, all self-centred and only out for themselves.
(8) In April, a woman in Northern Ireland who took the pills and was reported to the police by her two flatmates was given a three-month suspended sentence by Belfast crown court.
(9) Sloane Crosley, 31, whose first collection of essays, I Was Told There'd Be Cake , became a New York Times bestseller has also just written her second book, How Did You Get This Number , in which she tackles a dizzying array of subjects from living with an anorexic flatmate to buying stolen upholstery as a means of getting over a heartbreak.
(10) I have been living with my flatmate for the past year.
(11) A flatmate lounges on a sofa and a coal-effect gas fire pretends to burn in the hearth.
(12) They started their own games business and, though one later dropped out, the other flatmate, Steve Jackson, became a lifelong friend and collaborator.
(13) "We (me and a flatmate) had to sign a year-long lease and, when 12 months was up, sign up again for another year.
(14) It would obviously be hard to do but the positive side I want to bring out is not revenge, it’s trying to prevent these cases from happening in the future.” Katie Watts: ‘I blocked it from my memory’ “When I was training to be a nurse in London, I was raped by one of my flatmates in student halls.
(15) It is quite normal, now, to find oneself lumbered with flatmates at the age of 54.
(16) Knox has repeatedly said she would like to meet the relatives of her former flatmate in order to explain herself and convince them of her innocence.
(17) 5 Don't act ashamed Tinder has already passed the social acceptability test: groups of friends debate faces in the pub, flatmates sit around Tindering together over the weekly group meal.
(18) The film shows that Fox's former flatmate, who was also best man at his wedding, met the president of Sri Lanka with Fox for a meeting in a London hotel last year, despite having no role in government.
(19) A suspended sentence for safe, self-induced abortion, where a woman’s privacy was so invaded by the police and by the state (not to mention her judgmental flatmates who dobbed her in) is an international disgrace.
(20) Berhe’s sister and flatmate, Seghen, claimed she had no idea where he was until he suddenly appeared handcuffed to Italian police officers in Rome on Wednesday.
Roommate
Definition:
(n.) One of twe or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.
Example Sentences:
(1) But my roommate wasn’t the only one who was victim-blaming; it was a person (or persons) in the jury.
(2) I’m trans-racial, my son’s trans-racial, my roommate is African American,” she said.
(3) He's introduced by his roommates to beautiful, mysterious and emotionally confused Alaska Young, and the story progresses, mostly centered around Miles' life at Culver Creek and his growing attachment to Alaska.
(4) In comparison with control subjects, the roommates of persistently depressed persons displayed a progressive increase in BDI score over the course of the study.
(5) Subjects found compatibility with roommates and money management to be the biggest challenges.
(6) Dysphorics (n = 6) were more inclined to seek unfavorable feedback from their roommates than were nondepressives (n = 16); feedback-seeking activities of dysphorics were also associated with later rejection (Study 3).
(7) There was an altercation with guards, after which the roommate was removed to the Kingfisher isolation unit for three days.
(8) Obama's roommates were Paul Carpenter, a blond southern Californian who occasionally took his friends surfing (bodysurfing, in Barry's case), and Imad Husain, an intellectual Pakistani with a droll sense of humour who grew up in Karachi (though his parents now lived in Dubai) and finished his secondary education at Bedford School in the UK.
(9) This is a woman who was teenage roommates with Christy Turlington and is Nelson Mandela's honorary granddaughter, who has appeared in music videos for Bob Marley and George Michael, and whose ex-boyfriends include Robert De Niro and Mike Tyson.
(10) Measures of interpersonal behaviors exhibited by depressed college students toward their dormitory roommates were cluster analyzed, and this procedure produced 2 relatively distinct subgroups: a dependent, friendly, overgenerous type and an autocratic, competitive, aggressive, mistrustful type.
(11) I wasn’t surprised that this woman took so many wilful leaps past “couple” and landed on “roommates” in her split-second sussing-out of our relationship – it happens literally all the time.
(12) For comparative purposes, BDI scores were also obtained from roommates of individuals who were transiently depressed and from subjects with nondepressed roommates.
(13) Students and roommates were most often those responsible.
(14) "I found Joe on Craigslist and we became roommates by chance."
(15) This study examined the effect of preoperative roommate assignment on the preoperative anxiety and postoperative recovery of 27 male coronary-bypass patients.
(16) When I could actually sit up and move – not frozen lying down – I asked my roommate to take me to the hospital.
(17) The EBV infection rate among exposed and susceptible roommates of known cases was no higher than in roommates not so exposed.Elevations of EBV-specific and total IgM occurred during acute illness and disappeared in late convalescence.
(18) A roommate of Boyne’s denied that she called her that night.
(19) We are platonic adult roommates who hold hands at bars.
(20) Finally, depressed targets perceived their interpersonal impact negatively, whereas their normal roommates perceived their own interpersonal impact as overly positive.