How to Use adobe in a Sentence

adobe

noun

• The house was built of adobe.
• Palm trunks and fronds serve as roof rafters and thatch for houses built of adobe and mud.
  — Francine Kiefer, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2025
• Her wardrobe remained buried under adobe bricks and clay roof tiles.
  — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2017
• Guests can sleep and wake to desert views in the property's adobe homes.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2024
• Guests can sleep and wake to desert views in the property's adobe homes.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2024
• Both grew up fighting their siblings for space in one-room adobe shacks.
  — Kate Linthicum, latimes.com, 1 Dec. 2017
• There was an adobe hump against the wall with no apparent purpose.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 22 Mar. 2023
• Walls are double adobe, 18 inches thick, and keep the heat at bay.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 17 July 2021
• The adobe-style architecture matches the main house, which is just a few steps away.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 22 June 2022
• O’Keeffe met me at the door of her smallish, single-story adobe house.
  — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2017
• Turn the pilón upside-down, dump it out and the mofongo makes a smooth little dome like an adobe igloo.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Dec. 2021
• Scarlet strings of chile hung against the light-brown adobe of houses, and the fields were checkerboards of green and gold.
  — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 23 Oct. 2025
• About 400 artists show three or four items each in the former adobe residence.
  — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2019
• Tapestries and paintings of monsters and nude women hung on the adobe brick walls.
  — Jessica Testa, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• The plaster on old buildings peeled to reveal straw in the adobe bricks underneath.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Apr. 2018
• The adobe became a museum for a while, was sold to the city and then sold back to the archdiocese.
  — Yvonne Condes, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• Part of that had to do with replastering the original adobe walls.
  — Rima Suqi, ELLE Decor, 20 Sep. 2018
• Our farmhouse from the late 1800s was built of stone and earth in the French adobe style.
  — WSJ, 5 Dec. 2017
• O’Malley called the police to say the adobe fencing at her home had been damaged by gunfire.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 17 Jan. 2023
• Back in the Allens’ adobe home, artwork was everywhere, most of it from friends.
  — John Lingan, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2020
• The house was constructed with adobe bricks made from soil that had been dug out for the building’s foundation.
  — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• The Romanesque revival cathedral was built around the former adobe church.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2018
• Excellent Mexican fare in a fun, cozy room at the heart of an ancient adobe.
  — Alexandra Marvar, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2019
• But all over Jojutla, old one- and two-story buildings, some made of adobe, looked ready to fall.
  — Andrea Castillo, latimes.com, 23 Sep. 2017
• The adobe stands in a rural area south of Westfield North County mall.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2022
• When Mendoza de Lerma finally bought the adobe, she was filled with joy.
  — Laura Gómez, azcentral, 18 May 2018
• The three adobe sculptures under the table are by Rafa Esparza.
  — Rima Suqi, ELLE Decor, 20 Sep. 2018
• In the next mural, two Hispanic women are at work on an adobe building, while a man labors in a field.
  — Mary Hudetz, The Seattle Times, 9 Oct. 2018
• Hudson’s house is a simple three-room building of rock-hard adobe bricks, the thick walls whitewashed and topped with a beam and shingle roof.
  — Javier Pierini, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
• Hudson’s house is a simple three-room building of rock-hard adobe bricks, the thick walls whitewashed and topped with a beam and shingle roof.
  — Javier Pierini, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017