How to Use residential in a Sentence

residential

adjective
  • The company offers insurance for commercial and residential customers.
  • Most of the waste rock in the residential area has since been removed by the EPA and its contractors.
    Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The venue, which lies in a residential area and has operated for around nine years, has drawn the ire of its neighbors.
    Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al, 1 June 2023
  • Bolte was captured in a residential neighborhood about a half-mile from the prison.
    David K. Li, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Cars were flattened and trees burned out in moonscapes that had been residential streets.
    TIME, 10 Oct. 2023
  • But for many who love the city without wanting to be on The Strip, there are few residential options—until now.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 9 May 2023
  • And that’s the idea, the concept of converting office space into residential space in big cities.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Set on a quiet street bordering the edge of the Left Bank, the unmarked entrance is just the first sign of its private, residential ambiance.
    Vogue, 28 Sep. 2023
  • What’s more, Neumann had since moved on to a new venture called Flow — a version of WeWork for residential renters.
    Peter Cohan, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • But once inside, she was plied with alcohol to the point of blacking out, and driven close to 400 miles southwest, across state lines, to a residential home in Phoenix.
    Erin Vivid Riley, The New Republic, 29 July 2023
  • The nameless shop in the residential neighborhood of El Vedado is one of dozens of tiny grocery stores that have sprung up around Cuba in recent months.
    Andrea Rodríguez, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2023
  • One Israeli, a 70-year-old man, was killed in the central Israeli city of Rehovot when a rocket fired from Gaza hit a residential building.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
  • There were 84 units in the building, a mixture of residential and commercial spaces, the mayor said.
    CBS News, 30 May 2023
  • An airstrike Thursday smashed a residential building to rubble in the Bureij refugee camp several miles south of Gaza City.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 3 Nov. 2023
  • What is Merrill Park known for? Merrill Park is mostly residential with places of worship, schools and a few retail and service shops in the the neighborhood.
    Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The premium champagne was unveiled at the elusive 10 Cubed, a private club at Central Park Tower, the tallest residential building in the world.
    Keyaira Boone, Essence, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Rolling Hills Estates in 1976 approved the permits for a new, multi-unit residential development built on the hills between Hawthorne Boulevard and a small canyon, just a few miles from the ocean.
    Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
  • In total, six residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past three weeks, with an average price of $2.9 million.
    Bay Area Home Report, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Without a place to live, Denzil filed for bankruptcy and moved into a small apartment, in a redbrick complex on a residential street.
    Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 9 May 2023
  • Prison officials caught him in a residential neighborhood less than a mile from the prison just five minutes after his escape.
    Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The footage, taken from a nearby rooftop, shows an olive-green armored Israeli vehicle driving through the residential street.
    Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
  • In the video, the civilians appear to have their hands tied behind their backs and are being led by men in military clothing carrying AR-style weapons down a residential street.
    Sarah Cahlan, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Officers were called to the home of a former CPD police officer about a residential burglary.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
  • Stenger and Quiros also planned to build a hotel, a conference center, and a residential and retail complex, and to expand the local airport.
    Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Small businesses line the thoroughfare with residential areas on either side of the highway.
    Robert Mitchell, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Several residential streets, a high school and a Walmart are also nearby.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Children walk through the rubble after an Israeli strike on residential buildings in Rafah, southern Gaza, on Thursday.
    NBC News, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Parts of the aircraft crashed into a residential area, killing an additional 11 people.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Filatov added that both buildings were largely empty and the residential building was scheduled for sale.
    Leila Sackur, NBC News, 29 July 2023
  • For weekly email updates on residential real estate news, sign up here.
    Jill Terreri Ramos, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024

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