semi

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of semi The lone driver of that semi was removed with only minor injuries, according to Rice. Karen Bartunek, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2024 My 28-year-old son was killed by a semi in a hit-and-run. Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 7 Oct. 2024 The semi entered the median and overturned, causing a small fire to start. Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024 Two northbound lanes on I-465, just north of the I-70 interchange on Indianapolis' east side, remained closed through Sunday morning after a driver rammed into the back of a parked semi, ISP Sgt. Jordan Smith, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for semi 
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Noun
  • The four-bedroom duplex condo, just down the block from Taylor Swift's former townhouse, is capped by a sprawling rooftop terrace with open city views.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The 3,500-square-foot duplex is nestled in the corner of a historic pre-war building and features three bedrooms and four full bathrooms.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • It had been assembled by hand, after all, not in a white-walled lab in Los Alamos, but in a small, vacant ranch house just a few miles away.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
  • He’s eased himself into a director’s chair in the sunny living room of a ranch house on his rural weekend property in California’s Ventura County, a working lemon farm that’s also home to some 20 horses with names like Sir Heinrich VH.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The Bernheim installation includes a line cut into the wall that stretches through the whole first floor of the gallery’s town house—a nod to Rockburne’s spatial thinking.
    Grace Edquist, Vogue, 25 Nov. 2024
  • More top business stories: WLS-Channel 7 news anchor Terrell Brown lists South Shore home for $800,000 Tinley Park housing development takes shape east of downtown, where apartments, town houses planned Will the Chicago Bears change who calls offensive plays?
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • With some help from George, the Native American ranch hand who works for Natty (played by Ben Cardinal), and their mother’s old horse Lightning, the twin girls quickly piece together that the ranch’s financial failings may have more to do with Bart’s meddling than with Natty’s business model.
    Sara Belcher, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The ranches and dairies of the Point Reyes Seashore Ranchers Association intervened in the suit.
    Richard Halstead, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • And, for overnight guests, on-site staycations, or just taking an afternoon nap after a day at the beach, the one-bedroom, one-bath beachfront bungalow’s lounge spills onto a private patio.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Many home logos utilize a name as a starting point, incorporating words such as cottage, bungalow, manor and hall before adding other area details.
    Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • In an interview on BBC Radio 2 last week, actor Jude Law dropped the not-quite-bombshell revelation that the cottage featured in the 2006 Christmas movie The Holiday doesn’t really exist.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Law recently revealed that a cozy cottage featured in the film doesn’t even exist.
    Meghan Pryce, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • General Electric fills those tract houses with appliances.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 4 June 2024
  • RuPaul was born in San Diego in 1960, the third of four children and the only boy, and brought up in a yellow three-bedroom tract house, one of four models in a housing development called Michelle Manor.
    Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Her top priority would be to increase the percentage of affordable housing to 20% of overall projects, and ensure that developers do not cut corners by splitting single-unit housing into smaller townhomes to meet the quota.
    Hema Sivanandam, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The millennial pink Fort Greene development, the first all-electric building in New York, just launched sales, with prices for four-bedroom condos and townhomes starting at $3.75 million.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2024

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