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
  • Sitting Bull Cottage, the original ranch house dating to the 1920s, has been restored.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2026
  • In the kitchen of a modest Victorian ranch house in Northern California, there sits a small round table.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
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
  • 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
  • The portable help pendant elicited an immediate response from every room in my single-story three-bedroom ranch and worked perfectly at distances of 100 too 400 feet while outside of my home.
    John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Close to Rocky Mountain National Park, this all-inclusive guest ranch has everything from classic ranch activities like trail rides to surprising options such as a ropes course and zip line.
    Julie Bielenberg, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Individual cottages with modern interiors are set up in mini neighborhoods and have fireplaces with polished concrete hearths, heated floors, and floor-to-ceiling glass bifold doors leading to landscaped gardens.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Lodging options range from studios and cottages to large guest houses ideal for multigenerational groups.
    Julie Bielenberg, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026

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“Tract house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tract%20house. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.

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