How to Use ranch house in a Sentence

ranch house

noun
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  • In the first episode, Chelsea and Cole fix up a ranch house.
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2023
  • For my husband, Scott, and me, that house took the form of a 1950s-era brick ranch house.
    — Parker Bowie Larson, ELLE Decor, 12 May 2023
  • The single-story ranch house was set back from the road.
    — AZCentral.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The ranch house sits on a flood plain three blocks from a sound off the Gulf of Mexico.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • In the 1950s, the ubiquitous ranch house had a long roof that straddled a garage.
    — oregonlive, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The ranch house has been converted to the children’s house and school room.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Past a ranch house, the sedan stopped outside a large detached garage.
    — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2024
  • In one case, the rancher said the burglars ransacked the kitchen of an old ranch house in search of food.
    — Matt Leach, Fox News, 22 July 2021
  • Dan lives in a forest-green ranch house close to downtown Forks.
    — Lauren Smiley, Wired, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The site's listing suggests the ranch house could make for a good Airbnb spot or a foreman's house.
    — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Among them is this three-bed, two-and-a-half-bath breezy ranch house that stretches out over 2,800 square feet.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 17 Aug. 2018
  • Hank came home a week later to the couple’s modest ranch house.
    — Gina Kolata Kim Raff, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The couple, who share a ranch house in Santa Ynez, are deeply bonded.
    — Amy Kaufman, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
  • One of the ranch houses on the property dates back to 1878, the Chickering Co. brochure says.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • In the 1970s a ranch house in Malibu was transformed into a live-in studio known as Shangri-La.
    — The Economist, 15 June 2020
  • Besides the main home, a 1,140 square-foot ranch house is also on the property.
    — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
  • By the time Paige and John got the keys to their single-story brick ranch house, the yard hadn’t been mown for several weeks.
    — Marni Jameson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 July 2018
  • The Spanish-style four-bedroom, 4,230-square-foot ranch house has a pool and spa out back along with a tennis court.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 15 July 2019
  • My sister, Carla, and I returned a few years ago to see what had become of the small ranch house.
    — baltimoresun.com, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The ranch house of other friends of mine, which took eight years to build, was near the hurricane’s eye in the Coastal Bend and torn apart in minutes.
    — Karl Rove, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2017
  • For the last several years, Nash had rarely left his white-stone ranch house in Studio City.
    — Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
  • With the settlement money, Wood and Herzberg’s husband bought a ranch house in Mesa.
    — Lauren Smiley, Wired, 8 Mar. 2022
  • His ranch house designs took the country by storm after World War II.
    — Regina Cole, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • At the center sits a stucco ranch house with three bedrooms and three bathrooms in 3,000 square feet.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2020
  • The answer is a modest, red-brick ranch house in the quiet Nashville suburb of Goodlettsville.
    — Marisa Spyker, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2019
  • For the humans on the land, there's a seven-bedroom ranch house with a rock bottom swimming pool.
    — Gordon Dickson, star-telegram, 29 May 2018
  • Tucked-away treehouse This log/board-and-batten walkout ranch house sits on 1.66 acres in Prospect.
    — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 11 May 2023
  • Every shack, trailer, ranch house and split foyer mortgaged till the end of time.
    — Nathan Hill, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The finished part of the lower level is as big as a typical ranch house — 3,111 square feet.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Then, in 1991, the seller bought the ranch house and set out to expand it and make it into a two-story, Lannon stone and cedar home.
    — Jade Yan, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2021

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