ranch house

Definition of ranch housenext

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Recent Examples of ranch house The tree was probably planted around 1918 by Donald and Gertrude Ingersoll, who originally bought a parcel of land on this site, built a ranch house, and began replacing native foliage with tall, shady Australian eucalyptus trees. Lonnie Burstein Hewitt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025 His polo field, green-and-white stables, and sprawling ranch house had survived fires in 1938 and 1978. Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025 The centerpiece of the property is a 2,300-square-foot ranch house, surrounded by a caretaker’s home, a barn, a four-car garage, sheds and corrals. David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 16 Aug. 2025 Collin moseyed back to the ranch house and waited. Jon Billman, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2017 See All Example Sentences for ranch house
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ranch house
Noun
  • Steele visited Epstein at his Upper East Side town house in 2017, and assiduously cultivated the millionaire across a year of correspondence.
    Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026
  • But a triptych of photographs that were released last month, showing Andrew apparently on the floor of Epstein’s New York town house, have a terrible directness.
    Sam Knight, New Yorker, 16 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
  • The backstory Back in 2013, Mikael Hall fell in love with a Mallorcan manor house—previously a family home and prior to that, a girls' school.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The stately stone manor house at the heart of the private idyll was built around the turn of the 20th century for the Sulzberger family, the longtime publishers of The New York Times.
    Mark David, Robb Report, 18 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • If that’s not your cup of tea, remember that the city of Tucson splits the two districts of the park, so there are plenty of hotel, resort, and ranch options throughout town.
    Graham Averill, Outside, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Traditional western dramas were more likely to depict vaqueros as bandits than hard-working ranch hands whose contributions were fundamental to the American West.
    Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Things like duplexes, triplexes and cottage courts are often more affordable and can fit well into a neighborhood, according to Guzman.
    R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2026
  • More recently, Princess Beatrice oversaw a refurbishment to bring the cottage into the 21st century.
    Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 22 Feb. 2026

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“Ranch house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ranch%20house. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.

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