Examples of brownstone in a Sentence

She lives in a beautiful brownstone in Manhattan.

Recent Examples on the Web The historic brownstone had been reconfigured in the 1990s into a two-family unit, with the top three floors constituting a triplex, and the garden-level floor serving as a single apartment. — Vanessa Lawrence, ELLE Decor, 28 Apr. 2021 The Woman in the Window, currently streaming on Netflix, is about a highly educated white woman who is too traumatized to leave her New York brownstone and stays inside all day emptying wine glasses and watching classic thrillers. — Ross Douthat, National Review, 27 May 2021 The shut-in turned amateur sleuth here is Dr. Anna Fox (Adams), a child psychologist waiting out a severe case of agoraphobia in her multi-story New York brownstone. — Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2021 This 1899-built brownstone is one of four nearly identical ones on a leafy stretch of Jefferson Avenue just off Ralph. — Jenny Xie, Curbed, 11 May 2021 Penny Knops recently acquired a galvanized-steel stock tank, measuring 7 feet in diameter and costing about $1,500 with shipping, for the backyard of her brownstone in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. — Charles Passy, WSJ, 9 May 2021 Take this Harlem brownstone, home to a couple and their teenage daughter (their other two daughters have already flown the nest). — Vanessa Lawrence, ELLE Decor, 28 Apr. 2021 Housed in a five story brownstone on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Fivestory was a mecca for young, wealthy fashion influencers looking for hard to find, cutting-edge clothing and accessories. — Bettina Zilkha, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021 If a hot-pink brownstone can become enough of a local phenomenon that repainting it brown is newsworthy, why can’t a Billy Joel apartment building become a local landmark? — Valeria Ricciulli, Curbed, 4 May 2021

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