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Recent Examples of farmhouseJessie Buckley stars as the Young Woman — her name and occupation changing frequently — who contemplates ending her seven-week relationship during a Thanksgiving trip to meet her boyfriend Jake's (Jesse Plemons) parents at their farmhouse.—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Apr. 2026 Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband is a handsome cowboy and her six children are each more delightful than the last.—Shafiq Najib, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026 The main space includes a custom kitchen with an induction Verona stove, leathered granite counters and a large copper farmhouse sink.—Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 4 Apr. 2026 Bill and Liz Rich leave London for Heol Fanog, a remote modern farmhouse in the foothills of the Brecon Beacons, determined to make a fresh start.—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for farmhouse
As contractors build houses closer and closer to the historic Nelson Augustus Moore homestead in Berlin, preservationists are scrambling to save the stone-and-concrete home and 27-acre property.
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Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
7 Apr. 2026
Franklin Roosevelt was president when Dalworthington Gardens was established as a post-Great Depression federal homestead colony.
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Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Apr. 2026
The Larsen family leased property from owner Thomas Glover until 2022, when Randy Pitchford, founder of Gearbox Entertainment, purchased the chateau-style manor.
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Jack Dunn,
Variety,
8 Apr. 2026
The epicenter of it all is the manor, home to the town's founding father, John, and his wife, Ruth.
Song of the South is about a seven-year-old white boy, Johnny, who is sent with his mother Sally to his grandmother’s Georgia plantation outside Atlanta, while his father, a journalist, deals with some political turmoil back in the capital.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Apr. 2026
Permanent agriculture like plantations and grazing land was the overwhelming reason.
The hotel has 174 rooms and suites, all with plush furnishings and impressive, hacienda-style architecture.
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Cu Fleshman,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Feb. 2026
Renovations over the last several years have given rooms and suites a more modern design feel, with color palettes that highlight desert hues—all accommodations feature large sliding glass doors to patios or balconies for enjoying views of the expansive, hacienda-style grounds.
Your littlest charges will marvel at the size of the camels, tortoises and giraffes lumbering about the zoo’s meandering paths, and then eagerly pet goats and sheep in the farmyard.
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Susan McDonald,
The Providence Journal,
26 Mar. 2026
The 1952 novel follows the story of an unlikely farmyard friendship between a spider named Charlotte and a pig named Wilbur.
The 60-year-old was anxious at the onset of the spring planting season, rattling off the long list of issues affecting his family’s livelihood at their 2,000-acre farm near Wahoo, Nebraska.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2026
Punjabi immigrants faced challenges when integrating into California farm communities in the early 1900s, accentuated by laws that restricted immigration from Asia, closed paths to citizenship and barred noncitizens from landownership.