Tom had attended Cheslow High School for a year; but Ruth and Helen were about equally advanced in their studies and expected to be both roommates and classmates at the Hall.
Thus Molly Brown and Nance Oldham, quite opposites in looks and temperaments, became roommates during their freshman year at Wellington College and thus, from this small beginning, the seeds of a life-long friendship were sown.
Certainly, could he have his choice of roommates the choice wouldn't fall of Nead, but he couldn't.
And this is what I said addressing myself to my two silent roommates hanging motionlessly on the white wall of my cell: "I believe and confess that our prison is immortal.
And having burst into good-natured laughter--What quiet roommates I have!
Miss Hauser told me one of your roommates asked about Miss Hoffman after she had been gone a half day, so I presume you gave no hint of what you knew to the others.
You'd better go back to your room now, or your other roommatesmay rouse and be curious.
Again the nurses were packed four in a room, and Nancy had the same congenial roommates she had had on the boat.
They've thought of everything that might possibly be needed to help our men," explained Major Reed to the nurses, for Nancy had asked to bring her three roommates along.
If it would just hold off until the feast was over, surely the roommates of the beauty cult could not be so cruel as to leave them shivering and wet.
To hear Sue and Chloe and other roommates carry on, they were all "fixed up.
Then came the night before the eventful day, and Seth, who was to sleep at headquarters, had come down for a chat with his roommates and the members of Ninety-four's company.
With this programme for the coming day thus settled upon, the amateur fireman suggested that Teddy Bowser go home in order that he and his roommates might retire, and half an hour later Mrs. Hanson's lodgers were sleeping soundly.
When Seth arrived at Mrs. Hanson's he found his roommates awaiting his arrival.
During the day he had given the matter comparatively little thought, believing that, having set out on their mission of mercy at such an early hour, his roommates would succeed in their efforts.
If you had kicked against going to school, your roommates never'd thought of trying the same game, and so by helping yourself you've gone a long way towards helping others.
When the amateur fireman arrived at his lodgings he found his roommates awaiting him, and in the fewest possible words made known Sam Barney's misdemeanor, producing Joe Carter's letter in proof of his assertion.
Seth obeyed without delay what was little less than a command, and, hastening to Mrs. Hanson's dwelling, repeated to his roommates and Teddy Bowser all the driver had said to him concerning the possibilities of aiding Jip Collins.
On reaching Mrs. Hanson's he found his roommates awake, and grumbling because he had not returned sooner.
Not until the captain was out of hearing did the roommates dare to look about.
On Saturday, however, all three roommates pitched into the work.
Mischievous girls knocked on the walls to see their roommates turn pale.
Among Dick's roommates were some citizens of Boston, in durance for various alleged offences against the royal government.
We found two of my roommates smoking and talking before the tiny open fire.
My roommates perched on the table and the mantelpiece out of the way.
She raised her hand and said in her soft voice: "Are Miss Martha Reed's roommates here?
From her own experience and observation during the years already past, she was particularly interested in the different pairs of roommates who came within the scope of her daily trips.
If too much paternal government was whispered even thus early, a student with several roommates in a small parlor, and subject to intrusive friends in study hours without protection of rule, had some reason to be thankful for it.
A credulous young freshman was told by her roommates that Miss Lyman, if asked, would give out at morning prayers any hymn a student wished sung on her birthday, that it was her custom to do so.
I used to room in this parlor here, and wonder if I could find my name with those of my roommates still written on the inside shutters?
At this, the roommates looked at him with startled attention.
The roommates gave each other a look of serious puzzlement as the door closed.
Peachy, pulling a long face of protest, took her stand obediently in the corridor, while her three roommates entered dormitory 13.
My roommates were still asleep, having wept themselves into a state of coma.
I was naturally quite interested to know what the sisters were to be like who were to be my roommates for the year.
Roommates ought to be carefully chosen; one should not just trust to this grab-bag method.
He explained to his roommates that he had taken two cuts and had gone into the suburbs on an exploring expedition.
Familiarity breeds contempt,' so they say, and my familiar roommates fail to see the outcroppings of genius as clearly as you do.
Your roommates get the blame for not letting you be locked up, as you should be.
He went through the short note once and then again, while hisroommates watched him curiously.
I don't believe I have seen any of these people since with the exception of one of the roommates once, and again I don't recall the name.
Two roommates and they were both present at the party.
But on Punchard's remarking one day that he believed Vetch was malingering, it came out that he had not been seen by his roommates for nearly a week.
These preliminaries having been settled by Joe and myself, the time was come for taking our roommatesinto our confidence.
She had not yet told her roommates of her trip to town that morning, but she could readily understand, now, that when they were back in 513 she would have some explaining to do.
In spite of all the excitement, Arden and her roommates were soon sound asleep.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roommates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
