spare-room

A second wave of online rental sites is catching fire with consumers and investors, with start-ups like spare-room market Airbnb Inc., textbook lender Chegg Inc. and fashion outfit Rent the Runway following the success of pioneers like Netflix Inc. and Zipcar Inc.

Online Rental Sites Tout Options Spencer E. Ante 2011

A few more minutes passed and then, from outside the spare-room window, came a sound that should have made me think of death, or birth, but even before I got up to look I knew what it was: Enid, expelling a day's intake from her almost thirty-two-year-old lungs, cleansing them well with the damp, night-morning air.

Please Come to Boston? (Memoir) Rick Rofihe 2011

     A few more minutes passed and then, from outside the spare-room window, came a sound that should have made me think of death, or birth, but even before I got up to look I knew what it was: Enid, expelling a day's intake from her almost thirty-two-year-old lungs, cleansing them well with the damp, night-morning air.

BOYS who DO the BOP 2010

We drove down to Kent on Friday night with loads of junk to store in the loft at my mum's, thus clearing space in the spare-room to convert it into a nursery.

bumpsadaisy Diary Entry bumpsadaisy 2006

At last he spied a spare-room window open at the top, and fetching a garden ladder, climbed it and got in.

Swan Song 2004

So what would she do if Katie gaily announced that she would move into the spare-room with their guest for the duration of his visit?

A Forbidden Loving Jordan, Penny, 1946- 1997

In the end Tania was forced to give way to her friend's motherly bullying, and she and Lucy spent a week under the Fieldings 'roof, occupying their newly decorated spare-room, and using the elegant new bathroom which Ann had recently installed and on which she had practised her clever painting techniques to marvelous effect.

Payment Due Jordan, Penny, 1946- 1991

In the end Tania was forced to give way to her friend's motherly bullying, and she and Lucy spent a week under the Fieldings 'roof, occupying their newly decorated spare-room, and using the elegant new bathroom which Ann had recently installed and on which she had practised her clever painting techniques to marvelous effect.

Payment Due Jordan, Penny, 1946- 1991

Matthew kept to himself, unpacking and sorting through books, clothes, and other personal items that Eden had stored for him in the spare-room closet.

Honorbound Taylor, Laura 1988

"I'd best make up the spare-room bed; this time he'll be staying."

A Girl Named Rose Neels, Betty 1986