dwelling house

NOUN
  1. housing that someone is living in
    they raise money to provide homes for the homeless
    he built a modest dwelling near the pond
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How To Use dwelling house In A Sentence

  • The decrepit appearance of the municipal dwelling houses, however, masked their true value.
  • In his testament, written at Striviling in his "awin dwelling house," on the 5th of that month, as he nominates Mr. Robert Pont, Provost of Trinity College, to act as oversman, and one of his assignees, we may infer, that Clapperton had embraced the reformed doctrines. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
  • And the whole amount of the sums so to be assessed upon dwelling houses and slaves within each state respectively, shall be deducted from the sum hereby apportioned each state, and the remainder of the sum shall be assessed upon the lands within such state according to the valuations to be made pursuant to the act aforesaid, and at such per centum as will be sufficient to produce the said remainder... The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax?
  • For the roof we will require a ridge against the wall of the dwelling house, sash-bars running at right angles to this, a "purlin," or support, midway of these, and a sill for the lower ends. Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse
  • And the whole amount of the sums so to be assessed upon dwelling houses and slaves within each state respectively, shall be deducted from the sum hereby apportioned each state, and the remainder of the sum shall be assessed upon the lands within such state according to the valuations to be made pursuant to the act aforesaid, and at such per centum as will be sufficient to produce the said remainder ... The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax?
  • The improvements were a good stone dwelling house, kitchen barn, stable, smokehouse, cornhouse and a stone smith shop. The Journal
  • ‘All that piece or parcel of ground with the messuage or dwelling house garage building and all other erections thereupon… ‘with an identification of the two postal addresses and a reference to a plan.’
  • When he emerged from the house, Constable Dimatulac placed Mr. Lloyd under arrest for being unlawfully in a dwelling house and for uttering threats.
  • And wee the Said John Johnson and Eliza - beth his wife, doe Covenant & promisse To warrantize and defend the Sale of the Said dwelling house, Orchard and Suffolk Deeds, Lib. Suffolk deeds
  • Westlaw also manages to beat the OED on this one; “burglariously” is attested by the OED only as far back as 1807, but a quickie Westlaw search locates a 1792 North Carolina case reporting an indictment “for feloniously and burglariously breaking and entering into the dwelling house of one Rice.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Burglariously:
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