ranch house

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Recent Examples of ranch house Today, accommodations include casita rooms, suites, and a ranch house, outfitted with tile floors, exposed wood beams, and private in-room fireplaces. Molly Allen, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2026 Viewed from the street, the house actually is pretty unremarkable — a mid-size, split-level, midcentury ranch house, built in a style that became pretty ubiquitous in the California suburbs in the post-World War II era. Martha Ross, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026 His staff often has to yank him out of his ranch house in Austin to get on the road. Tad Friend, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026 Webster and his wife bought a one-story ranch house, 20 acres in the middle of nowhere. Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ranch house
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ranch house
Noun
  • The home here is a ramshackle London town house where a famed painter, Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen), is spending his final years in a haze of creative stagnation and lingering renown.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The Lincoln Park town house vanished almost as quickly as Sasha Adler fell for it.
    David Foxley, Architectural Digest, 25 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The Netflix series Adolescence starts with a police SWAT team conducting a dawn raid on a modest tract house in the north of England.
    Martha Bayles, National Review, 24 July 2025
  • General Electric fills those tract houses with appliances.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 4 June 2024
Noun
  • Two girls born on the same day in a manor house see their lives altered by an act of revenge that changes their place within a powerful family.
    Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
  • What were manor houses, exactly?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Recently, hippos have been spotted in areas that are more than 60 miles north of the ranch.
    CBS News, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Recently, hippos have been spotted in areas that are more than 60 miles north of the ranch, where Escobar initially introduced the water-dwelling pachyderms.
    Manuel Rueda, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Stay in an oceanfront cottage, book a paddleboard tour, and eat a boatload of whatever is fresh at seafood shacks like Sam & Omie’s, which has been around since 1937.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Meanwhile, the newlyweds and their wedding party went to nearby cottages to dry off using towels and hair dryers.
    Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026

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“Ranch house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ranch%20house. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.

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