country house

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Recent Examples of country house Scenes that would benefit from more time to play out; the final one, and another in which Greta and the bad boys run riot inside Isabell’s country house are assembled in an unsatisfying manner. Alissa Simon, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025 Following her to a country house just outside some woods, the gang harasses the inhabitants and split up across the property. Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 26 Feb. 2025 Decades later, the actor's primary residence with his wife Amal and their children — twins Ella and Alexander, 7 — is a country house in France. Rachel Raposas, People.com, 21 Feb. 2025 In late 1970, Led Zeppelin pulled up to a country house in Hampshire with the Rolling Stones’ mobile recording truck, and found the right ambiance and acoustics for creating their best-selling album, often considered one of the best in rock and roll. Al Shipley, SPIN, 19 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for country house
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Noun
  • The space-witch order ostensibly provides trusted advisers to the ruling Emperor of the Corrino Empire and his Imperium’s aristocratic great houses, like House Atreides and House Harkonnen, but has secretly harbored long-gestating plans about who can and should rule.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Prophecy follows the formation of the Bene Gesserit, an order of women who become the puppet masters of the great houses of the Empire on Dune.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • For Bowen Goh and Vanessa Li, partners in the Bushwick bar Mood Ring, that fantasy became a reality in 2022, when the platonic pair went in on a three-story Bed-Stuy town house.
    Julie Vadnal, Architectural Digest, 29 May 2025
  • The first was reported about 9:05 a.m. Friday, May 9, at a town house in the 1700 block of Pebble Beach Circle, leaving a family displaced and their pet dog deceased, a fire report said.
    Courier-News, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Although crews were able to ventilate the building and clear most of the smoke from the top three floors shortly after the fire, Smith previously told the Daily Southtown the entire building was evacuated and all residents were assisted in finding temporary housing.
    Samantha Moilanen, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2025
  • The development would include eight affordable housing units, or those affordable to teachers, police and firefighters.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2025

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“Country house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/country%20house. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.

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