house guest
IPA: hˈaʊsgˈɛst
noun
- Alternative form of houseguest [A person who visits and stays at someone else's house, usually for one or more nights.]
houseguest
IPA: hˈaʊsgɛst
noun
- A person who visits and stays at someone else's house, usually for one or more nights.
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Examples of "houseguest" in Sentences
Examples of "house-guest" in Sentences
- They never mistook a fire engine or a bawling infant or a grunt from a geriatric house-guest for a Mongol invasion.
- Oliver, house-guest of the horse's owner, had been good-naturedly thrown in with the package and asked to look after the lady.
- Through her friendship with the South African politician General Jan Smuts, Millin was received by President Hoover and was also the house-guest of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
- Before I knew it, I was filling a suitcase with summer clothes and easing into the role of the rotating house-guest, spending time with my gallery of friends, who introduced me to the rhythm of their summertime lives and the myriad of activities that went along with it.
- I must keep my poor father, and you, waiting, while my attentions are occupied by that most troublesome pest, the house-guest, made all the more annoying by the fact that they are the dearest of friends whom I have much missed, and yet I grudge them the time I lose in telling my tale, ungracious hostess that I am!
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