How to Use house in a Sentence

house

1 of 2 noun

• He made enough noise to wake the whole house.
• Would you like to come to my house for dinner?
• I spent the weekend just puttering around the house.
• More than 800 people from the U.S. and abroad have toured the Helm house.
  — Bill Bowden, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2023
• The cake was delicious and made the house smell so good.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2023
• Wear them when lounging around the house or on your next flight or road trip.
  — Rachel Simon, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2023
• My nephews and nieces try to warn their Aunt Aya before the house shakes.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• After a black truck stopped in front of his house, someone ran out and stole the flag.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• Years ago, a client bought a lake house, intending to live there for the rest of their days.
  — Roger Whitney, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Find your house: In the search bar at the top of the page, enter your home address and press enter.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2023
• One was a hobbit house with a snowy roof slide that ended in an ice hole.
  — Lisa Lucas, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
• When Amy and John returned to the house, ambulances were pulling up.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• Walk me through the process of creating Mountains at your own house.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2023
• The only thing left from my uncles house was a fireproof safe.
  — Jamie Joseph, Fox News, 14 Aug. 2023
• Off a curved hallway on the main house’s main level, a sunroom overlooks the yard.
  — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• One eight-year-old girl drew her large, happy house, then, next to it, added a puddle of blood.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
• The buildup of denial that covers everything in their house like a film.
  — Samy Burch, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• His father said Amari Smith was likely on his way to his grandmother’s house at the time of the crash.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• The rest of his neighbor’s house had collapsed and slid down the hill in pieces, sending mud into his garage.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• There’s a special guest due to make a visit to Khloé Kardashian’s house soon — the Tooth Fairy!
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 5 Nov. 2023
• In the early evening of Nov. 2, around the time Rania and the girls were usually aboveground having tea, a strike hit the house.
  — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
• Ralph described running away from the house, bleeding from his head, yelling for help.
  — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 27 June 2023
• The house was a Polish flat, which have narrow, steep and winding stairwells.
  — Journal Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2024
• There’s room for 10 guests overall in this spacious house with five bedrooms and three baths.
  — Alice Dubin, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2023
• After 15 minutes of loitering outside, the bear moved on and walked away from the house.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
• That’s right, Cera couldn’t even take a photo of Barbie’s dream house with his throwback phone.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 10 July 2023
• Someone from the auditor’s office spotted the car in front of Krueger’s house at night.
  — oregonlive, 15 June 2023
• He’s observed fame up close, both in his own life and among the guests on his show, megawatt stars who can’t leave the house without being mobbed.
  — Kate Tuttle, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
• There’s also a boat dock, fish house, four boat slips with two lifts and an 8,000-square-foot workshop, with four bays and full RV hookup.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 10 July 2023
• And words could carry me beyond the gentle slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains that rose behind our house.
  — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2023

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house

2 of 2 verb

• The carpenter built casing to house the hot water pipes.
• More prisons are needed to house the growing number of inmates.
• The museum houses an impressive collection of jewels.
• He’s built a coop on the north end of his plot to house 3,000 chickens and chicks.
  — oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2023
• Even among the housed, feeders tend to live on the margins.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The league also housed 16 members of the all-state first and second teams.
  — Shane Hoffmann | , oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2023
• In addition, the bow area can house a 26-foot tender and two Jet Skis.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2024
• The Oval Office is housed here, as are the offices of some of the president’s top aides and support staff.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 6 July 2023
• The hotel was meant to start housing about 70 male asylum seekers as of this week.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2023
• The property that housed Kawa Ramen and Sushi, where the fire started, will take longer to rebuild.
  — Jessica Rodriguez, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
• Behind the cabin, eight separate battery units are housed in the rear of the fuselage.
  — Jeremy White, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2024
• The last was added in 1930, and for decades the structures housed part of the ministry of agriculture before falling vacant.
  — Maggie Shipstead, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2024
• More than 1,600 people are being housed in shelters, Gov. Josh Green said.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2023
• The shop sold coffees and freshly made desserts from the Polo Bar, the restaurant housed below the coffee shop which also opened that year.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023
• With 41 cards and envelopes plus a box to house them all, this set will prepare her for any occasion a card is needed.
  — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2023
• The heart of the dwelling comprises one long, low-slung structure that houses the living room, dining area, and open-plan kitchen.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2023
• Because her papers were not housed in a library, writing the story of her life was a great challenge.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
• Yakshas guarded the stupas that housed the Buddha’s relics.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• In the final hours of negotiations this week, the U.S. continued to insist that the fund be housed within the World Bank.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
• Crested Butte is a historic mining town, and Bonez is in an 1889 building that once housed the town’s electric plant.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 5 July 2023
• All of this occurs in a two-story city row home that also houses a family of six.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• Dishes like these make Ladder 4, which is housed in a century-old firehouse, feel like so much more than a wine bar.
  — Elazar Sontag, Bon Appétit, 13 Sep. 2023
• This, in part, is due to some animals having been housed by the organization for more than a year.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2023
• The buckwheat hulls are housed in a zippered cotton shell to make adjustments simple.
  — Good Housekeeping, 5 July 2023
• There’s an inner pocket to house the battery, plus two side pockets and on the outside of the jacket to store small essentials.
  — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
• The building's three upper levels will house 12 two-bedroom apartments, four on each floor.
  — The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2024
• In a tourbillon, the balance and escapement are housed in a small cage that rotates around its axis once per minute.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 2 Oct. 2023
• The new location checked all the boxes and did not need any rezoning to allow animals to be housed there.
  — Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2024
• The initial report from that month found 13 people had become homeless for every 10 people housed over the past year.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2023
• The 2,300-acre sanctuary also houses lions, bears, and tigers.
  — Jillian Sykes, CNN, 26 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024