How to Use housing estate in a Sentence

housing estate

noun

• The fire destroyed seven of the eight towers at the high-rise housing estate.
  — Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 16 Jan. 2026
• Crowds scream at riot police in shopping malls and housing estates.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
• What if the Trojan War took place in a Parisian housing estate?
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
• He was born in Sydney and raised by a single mother in a public housing estate.
  — Time, 20 May 2022
• In fact the public housing estates always have amazing color schemes.
  — Teen Vogue, 30 May 2019
• The Gurnos housing estate in Merthyr Tydfil.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 6 May 2026
• The young have been rounded up on street corners, searched at their housing estates, and chased on college running tracks and in shopping malls.
  — Suzanne Sataline, Quartz, 30 Nov. 2019
• Schools, day care, shops, sporting venues, restaurants and bars will also feature, making the area more than a simple housing estate.
  — Tom Page, CNN, 3 Oct. 2022
• Let the mandate for equality spring from every farm and crossroads and housing estate in Ireland.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2019
• Lewis Hamilton at least bucked one of those trends, with his mixed-race family origins and council housing estate background.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• This social-housing estate, which had 300 apartments in it, was fantastic.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021
• The outbreak in a public housing estate and signs of virus found in sewage led to mass testing at dozens of apartment blocks, involving thousands of people.
  — Jinshan Hong, Bloomberg.com, 21 Jan. 2022
• The classic footballing upbringing is playing the game on narrow streets, five-a-side pitches near housing estates or tight school playgrounds.
  — Michael Cox, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
• During their furlough, some are paired with enforcement officers and stationed on public housing estates.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2020
• A week before the vote, amid the housing estates of Toledo’s bland new town there was palpable frustration at the country’s politicians.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
• The connected network of poles allowed the blaze to move between buildings, an event described as rare in Hong Kong’s dense housing estates.
  — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 27 Nov. 2025
• Sandy Au, a 28-year-old art gallery assistant, feels this nostalgia acutely at an old housing estate where her grandfather lived.
  — Laurel Chor, National Geographic, 1 Sep. 2020
• Service stations—along with shopping centers and suburban housing estates—were, Frances used to imagine, one of his pickup spots for women.
  — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• In the film, Izi comes close to finally leaving London’s Kitchen, one of the last housing estates in the city where the wealth gap has reached an extreme.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
• Her Watling housewives had been uprooted from the bustle of inner London to an isolated housing estate.
  — Divya Subramanian, The New York Review of Books, 20 Jan. 2020
• The grief of losing my childhood home, and the grief of seeing the little hill on which my childhood home stands gradually parceled out and excavated to make way for new housing estates.
  — Zining Mok, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2024
• The aggregate number probably doesn’t reflect the market’s gloomy sentiment—prices in some housing estates have fallen more than 10% in just the past month.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2018
• In January, parts of the Kwai Chung public housing estate were locked down for up to a week for mass testing after an outbreak that made headlines across the city.
  — Ezra Cheung, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2022
• Afterward, his mother moved, with three of the boys, including O’Hagan, to a housing estate in Kilwinning.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• Many of the more than 4,000 people who lived in the public housing estate in the city’s Tai Po neighborhood were aged 65 and over.
  — Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
• These elections, mostly concerned with rubbish collection and the management of public housing estates, have never previously been a big deal.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
• Malls Mire—a small woodland in Glasgow, between a housing estate, supermarket, and factory—is an unlikely haven for wildlife.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2021
• Many of those who stayed in Glasgow were relocated to large housing estates like Drumchapel, Easterhouse, and Castlemilk.
  — Sam Rigby, Quartz, 2 Nov. 2019
• To allow better access to the housing estate, these were rebuilt further apart, after the originals had been demolished in 2013.
  — Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 19 Aug. 2024
• When a republican party wins the general election, the monarchy is dismantled and the royal family is sent to a housing estate to live like all the other Brits.
  — Angela Haupt, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2017