How to Use house in a Sentence

house

1 of 2 noun
Definition of housenext
Synonyms for housenext
  • He made enough noise to wake the whole house.
  • Would you like to come to my house for dinner?
  • I spent the weekend just puttering around the house.
  • More than 800 people from the U.S. and abroad have toured the Helm house.
    — Bill Bowden, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The cake was delicious and made the house smell so good.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Wear them when lounging around the house or on your next flight or road trip.
    — Rachel Simon, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2023
  • My nephews and nieces try to warn their Aunt Aya before the house shakes.
    — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • After a black truck stopped in front of his house, someone ran out and stole the flag.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • Years ago, a client bought a lake house, intending to live there for the rest of their days.
    — Roger Whitney, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Find your house: In the search bar at the top of the page, enter your home address and press enter.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2023
  • One was a hobbit house with a snowy roof slide that ended in an ice hole.
    — Lisa Lucas, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
  • When Amy and John returned to the house, ambulances were pulling up.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Walk me through the process of creating Mountains at your own house.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2023
  • The only thing left from my uncles house was a fireproof safe.
    — Jamie Joseph, Fox News, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Off a curved hallway on the main house’s main level, a sunroom overlooks the yard.
    — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • One eight-year-old girl drew her large, happy house, then, next to it, added a puddle of blood.
    — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The buildup of denial that covers everything in their house like a film.
    — Samy Burch, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • His father said Amari Smith was likely on his way to his grandmother’s house at the time of the crash.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The rest of his neighbor’s house had collapsed and slid down the hill in pieces, sending mud into his garage.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • There’s a special guest due to make a visit to Khloé Kardashian’s house soon — the Tooth Fairy!
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 5 Nov. 2023
  • In the early evening of Nov. 2, around the time Rania and the girls were usually aboveground having tea, a strike hit the house.
    — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Ralph described running away from the house, bleeding from his head, yelling for help.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 27 June 2023
  • The house was a Polish flat, which have narrow, steep and winding stairwells.
    — Journal Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2024
  • There’s room for 10 guests overall in this spacious house with five bedrooms and three baths.
    — Alice Dubin, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2023
  • After 15 minutes of loitering outside, the bear moved on and walked away from the house.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
  • That’s right, Cera couldn’t even take a photo of Barbie’s dream house with his throwback phone.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 10 July 2023
  • Someone from the auditor’s office spotted the car in front of Krueger’s house at night.
    — oregonlive, 15 June 2023
  • He’s observed fame up close, both in his own life and among the guests on his show, megawatt stars who can’t leave the house without being mobbed.
    — Kate Tuttle, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
  • There’s also a boat dock, fish house, four boat slips with two lifts and an 8,000-square-foot workshop, with four bays and full RV hookup.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 10 July 2023
  • Rachel went to a friend’s house in Wheat Ridge on the morning of May 3 and laid down on the floor, according to a coroner’s autopsy report.
    — Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2024
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house

2 of 2 verb
  • The carpenter built casing to house the hot water pipes.
  • More prisons are needed to house the growing number of inmates.
  • The museum houses an impressive collection of jewels.
  • He’s built a coop on the north end of his plot to house 3,000 chickens and chicks.
    — oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Even among the housed, feeders tend to live on the margins.
    — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The league also housed 16 members of the all-state first and second teams.
    — Shane Hoffmann | , oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2023
  • In addition, the bow area can house a 26-foot tender and two Jet Skis.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The Oval Office is housed here, as are the offices of some of the president’s top aides and support staff.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 6 July 2023
  • The hotel was meant to start housing about 70 male asylum seekers as of this week.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The property that housed Kawa Ramen and Sushi, where the fire started, will take longer to rebuild.
    — Jessica Rodriguez, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Behind the cabin, eight separate battery units are housed in the rear of the fuselage.
    — Jeremy White, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The last was added in 1930, and for decades the structures housed part of the ministry of agriculture before falling vacant.
    — Maggie Shipstead, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2024
  • More than 1,600 people are being housed in shelters, Gov. Josh Green said.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The shop sold coffees and freshly made desserts from the Polo Bar, the restaurant housed below the coffee shop which also opened that year.
    — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023
  • With 41 cards and envelopes plus a box to house them all, this set will prepare her for any occasion a card is needed.
    — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The heart of the dwelling comprises one long, low-slung structure that houses the living room, dining area, and open-plan kitchen.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Because her papers were not housed in a library, writing the story of her life was a great challenge.
    — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Yakshas guarded the stupas that housed the Buddha’s relics.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • In the final hours of negotiations this week, the U.S. continued to insist that the fund be housed within the World Bank.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Crested Butte is a historic mining town, and Bonez is in an 1889 building that once housed the town’s electric plant.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 5 July 2023
  • All of this occurs in a two-story city row home that also houses a family of six.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Dishes like these make Ladder 4, which is housed in a century-old firehouse, feel like so much more than a wine bar.
    — Elazar Sontag, Bon Appétit, 13 Sep. 2023
  • This, in part, is due to some animals having been housed by the organization for more than a year.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The buckwheat hulls are housed in a zippered cotton shell to make adjustments simple.
    — Good Housekeeping, 5 July 2023
  • There’s an inner pocket to house the battery, plus two side pockets and on the outside of the jacket to store small essentials.
    — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The building's three upper levels will house 12 two-bedroom apartments, four on each floor.
    — The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2024
  • In a tourbillon, the balance and escapement are housed in a small cage that rotates around its axis once per minute.
    — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The new location checked all the boxes and did not need any rezoning to allow animals to be housed there.
    — Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2024
  • This wing of the home also houses the primary suite, which offers a sitting area and a private terrace, a deluxe bath, and a massive walk-in closet.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Rayner said just one-fourth of the boxes house a bluebird, and half their nests are unsuccessful, victims of predators like sparrows, snakes and raccoons.
    — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2024

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