How to Use warren in a Sentence

warren

noun
  • The second and third floors house a warren of apartments.
    Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The bridal shop is tucked far in the back of store on an upper floor, past a warren of tiny boutiques.
    Kate Stone Lombardi, Good Housekeeping, 25 June 2020
  • In telling their tales, the authors plunge down a warren-full of rabbit holes.
    Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The warren of galleries is down a stairwell in a 7,000-square-foot basement.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Jump into a hole, down to a cozy warren, deep below the surface.
    David G. Allan, CNN, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Fisher sought out these distillers, searching through a warren of dim houses on the edge of the city.
    Ben Okri, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The old town is a warren of ancient temples, houses and stores built around a number of canals.
    Chris Dwyer, CNN, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The warren of little rooms and low ceilings inside is gone.
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • There is freedom and fun in this concrete warren of bars, restaurants, and night clubs.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Even so, France was daunted by her new home, with its warren of petite rooms.
    ELLE Decor, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The basement contains a warren of rooms once used by servants.
    Candace Taylor, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The heart of old Kabul was a warren of houses and markets along the Kabul River.
    Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
  • CrimeReads In quaint Ojai, about 25 minutes north of the city of Ventura, a maze-like warren of book shelves unspools.
    Julia Wick, latimes.com, 22 June 2019
  • In order to hold the city of 3 million, Russian forces will have to advance through a warren of narrow streets.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The route threads through what has been a notorious warren of homeless camps along the Chester Creek greenbelt.
    Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2019
  • On Thursday night, the event transformed the pier with elaborate, flashing light displays and a warren of rooms and nooks.
    Emily Holt, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The warren-like corridors of one floor were devoted to hats.
    Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The lawmakers and others were rushed out of the chamber and down a warren of staircases and hallways.
    Mary Clare Jalonick, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Its first headquarters was a warren of offices and studios not far from the River Thames.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
  • He was born and raised there, amid a warren of houses cobbled together from brick, concrete, and tin.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • One wing of the museum had been taken over by the Ministry of Finance, which turned it into a warren of offices.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The warren of art galleries and restaurants of Bear Skin Neck was barren early morning, except for swarms of plows.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2022
  • When the final coat of plaster is laid, the warren of ducts and wires beneath it has to sit perfectly flat, plumb to within a sixteenth of an inch over ten feet.
    Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Some are small enough to house a single person with a rifle while others house a warren of underground rooms.
    Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The quake shook the old city of Marrakesh, an 11th-century warren of stone buildings packed with historical sites and tourists.
    By joanna Sugden, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Franco grew up in Mare, an area of northern Rio with a warren of favelas that sometimes erupt in violence.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Ellison Drive is a cul-de-sac tucked away in a warren of streets lined with attractive homes and tidy landscaping.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Its location—off of a twelve-lane freeway, past a line of strip malls, in a warren of office parks—had the benefit of being both hidden and easy to get to.
    Bernice Yeung, The New Yorker, 26 July 2023
  • This is what Burge's weekend Twitter threads do to me every Sunday: not just rabbit holes but full warrens.
    Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 24 Apr. 2023
  • In a warren of low, mud-walled houses on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, Basmina prepares an evening meal of eggs, a small bowl of beans and two flatbreads.
    Jo Shelley, Christiane Amanpour and Ahmet Mengli, CNN, 22 May 2022

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