tract house

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Recent Examples of tract house But his idyllic Mayberry was now a construction yard surrounded by tract houses. Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024 Most of the homes are tract houses, and many have taken on the personality of their owners with upgrades over the years. San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023 Depending on the location, the cost for a ranch tract house with a garage in the suburbs was within a middle-class family’s reach. Jeastman, oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2023 In a 1973 photograph of a tract house in Longmont, Colo., Adams shows us the rear of the structure and its patio, on which all the chairs but one face inward, toward the split-level home, as if the people who live here can’t bear to look out on the world their prosperity has destroyed. Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 June 2022 See All Example Sentences for tract house
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tract house
Noun
  • This includes the property's four-bedroom ranch house, built in 1936 as a summer home for a former Denver mayor.
    Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2026
  • It was signed at the Campo de Cahuenga — an adobe ranch house near the Cahuenga Pass in the San Fernando Valley.
    Staff report, Daily News, 12 Jan. 2026
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
  • Morgan and Glazer spent months traveling together through the United States, France, England, Scotland and Ireland, scouting antique fairs and dealers, flea markets, junk shops and old manor houses selling their patrimony.
    Mark Lamster Architecture Critic, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • At the center of the spread is an 18th-century manor house measuring just over 8,600 square feet.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The seven-time Oscar nominee, known for his performances in two Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, The Great Santini, Lonesome Dove and The Apostle, died Sunday at home on his Virginia ranch, his wife, Luciana, announced.
    Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Ronald Reagan President Ronald Reagan favored straightforward American cooking, including steak served at his California ranch, Rancho del Cielo.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 16 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Homeowners Katie and Jared Hyatt fondly named their 1866 cottage on Main Street in Madison, Georgia, ‘The Few House’.
    Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Mike and Patricia McCoy answered the door of their cozy cottage in Imperial Beach, a short stroll from crashing waves and several blocks from the Tijuana River Estuary, where California meets Mexico and the hiking trails are named for them.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026

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

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