country house

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Recent Examples of country house 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 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 Guests arrived to a seating area that was draped in frescoes reminiscent of those found in old British country houses. Laia Farran Graves, Forbes, 25 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
  • The most recent application requests only 134 town houses, but the other homes could still be on the table.
    Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Its first two chapters were in Shanghai and New York, where it was recreated last September at an Upper East Side town house for a one-week installation.
    Luisa Zargani, WWD, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In contrast, his Abundance ideology promotes reducing regulations and removing bottlenecks in housing construction.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Mortgage rates rise, cooling the housing market and consumer spending.
    Joel Shulman, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025

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“Country house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/country%20house. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.

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