adobe house

NOUN
  1. a house built of sod or adobe laid in horizontal courses
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How To Use adobe house In A Sentence

  • I live on the unfashionable west side of Santa Fe, where the neighborhood is small and funky, adobe houses sitting in well-tended yards of flax and hollyhocks or the neglected ones of dirt and panic grass with a few old car parts thrown in.
  • Most people live in adobe houses with thatched roofs.
  • Through a scattering of gray adobe houses, all identical, I would go to the house fronted with mulberry trees.
  • They were farmers of arid land who built adobe houses in cliffs, grew miniature sweetcorn and squash, wove baskets and made beautiful clay pots.
  • I like the description of preboom Los Angeles that McWilliams cites: “a town of crooked, ungraded, unpaved streets; low, lean, rickety, adobe houses, with flat asphaltum roofs, and here and there an indolent native, hugging the inside of a blanket.” I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
  • Perhaps the poor, who live in adobe houses, ran amok with automatic dishwashers.
  • Traditional architectural styles are found in the rural communities, with variously shaped adobe houses with thatched roofs.
  • In rural areas of Latin America, adobe houses with thatched roofs are fixtures of the landscape.
  • Through a scattering of gray adobe houses, all identical, I would go to the house fronted with mulberry trees.
  • They watched the tall figure of Stallings charging through the adobe house, peering here and there, asking questions in short, snappy sentences, going down on his knees in search of footprints. The Pony Rider Boys in Texas Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains
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