How to Use brownstone in a Sentence

brownstone

noun
Definition of brownstonenext
  • She lives in a beautiful brownstone in Manhattan.
  • So where does this leave buyers without a few million in cash to throw down on a dilapidated brownstone?
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Beyond the original brownstone stoop and pint-sized foyer, the parlor floor has been opened up into a 45-foot-long great room.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 4 Jan. 2025
  • There’s a drawing of one of their first brownstone projects and a photo of Jordan and Barry on one of their earlier dates.
    — Megan Johnson, Architectural Digest, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Crumbling walls of historic brownstones increasing worry for CT national park.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Annie Schlechter Reiss’s studio is on the top floor of the brownstone.
    — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Built in 2018, the brownstone has five bedrooms and four-and-a-half bathrooms.
    — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Some of the best parties on the course happen on the stoops of brownstones along Lafayette Avenue.
    — Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • That night, Bobby goes to Wendy and Chuck’s brownstone.
    — refinery29.com, 11 June 2018
  • Rob Gore stands in the doorway of his Brooklyn brownstone.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 25 Apr. 2020
  • The set of the family’s brownstone apartment helped with that.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Oct. 2022
  • His office was in a brownstone, three blocks up from my apartment, on the second floor in the back.
    — Donald Antrim, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Jesse Jackson sat on what looked like a brownstone stoop.
    — Janell Ross, Time, 18 July 2023
  • The same is true of the humble brownstone owned by Agnes van Rhijn and her sister Ada Brook across the street.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • That apartment happens to be at the top of four floors of winding stairs in a Park Slope brownstone.
    — Aly Walansky, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Join her for tea at her Sugar Hill brownstone for more dish.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2017
  • We were given free housing and lived on the top two floors of a brownstone at 209 Madison.
    — Abby Ellin, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The living room of the Greenwich Village brownstone fell silent.
    — Kara Voght, Washington Post, 29 June 2024
  • All of the houses had been built during the final third of the last century, and were of brick or brownstone.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Tourists with rolling bags swept in and out of the huge brownstone mansion next door that has become a bustling bed-and-breakfast.
    — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2019
  • That year Santa brought us a miniature brownstone, tea shop and cafe.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2018
  • There are $4 million brownstones across the street from housing projects.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The house, with four stories plus a basement, was built on the site of an older brownstone building in 1909.
    — Josh Barbanel, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2018
  • But their new home isn’t in a Back Bay brownstone, South End condo, or downtown high-rise.
    — Boston.com Real Estate, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Get to know the city’s many vibrant neighborhoods, from the lively streets of the East Village to the classic brownstones of Chelsea.
    — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • But for a job at a brownstone or townhome, the process can be a little different.
    — Charles Passy, WSJ, 9 May 2021
  • Despite the updates, the brownstone still retains its roots.
    — Shoko Wanger, House Beautiful, 18 Mar. 2019
  • Sai lives in Brooklyn in a beautiful brownstone with Craig, Scout, and Rio.
    — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 18 July 2023
  • The Luhrmann’s have actually been working on the Stuyvesant Park brownstone for quite some time.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 17 May 2024
  • Barker says the client originally fell in love with the ceilings of the brownstone, but a lot of work was needed.
    — Wendy Goodman, The Cut, 11 Jan. 2018

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