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
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Noun
  • 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
  • Webster and his wife bought a one-story ranch house, 20 acres in the middle of nowhere.
    Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Any project involving multiple designers requires plenty of open conversation and some healthy design diplomacy, but all the more so in the case of a recent renovation to an Upper West Side town house.
    David Foxley, Architectural Digest, 7 Jan. 2026
  • His Manhattan town house on East 71st Street, which sold for $51 million in March 2021.
    Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 23 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The Dining Room, set in the manor house at Quinta da Casa Branca, serves refined à la carte dishes and a tasting menu in a classic room with a terrace facing the gardens.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • This small exquisite property provides unique rooms in its two manor houses and beautiful cantilevered landscaping.
    Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Joe Deviney, the county agricultural commissioner, said that so far none of the farms or ranches leaving the federal land has found a new location in Marin County.
    Richard Halstead, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • In Strawberry Park Valley, this 15-acre ranch is about 15 minutes from the 182-trail Steamboat Resort.
    The Week US, TheWeek, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The bill would exempt snack foods and corn masa flour made by, or supplied to, certain types of businesses including cottage food operations.
    Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado January 12, Sacbee.com, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The real Chateau experience comes from the cottages and bungalows.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2026

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“Tract house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tract%20house. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.

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