country house

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Recent Examples of country house And shortly before Starovoit’s suicide, the vice governor of the Leningrad region was found dead with a gunshot wound in a country house. Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2025 Photographer Sam Rock took over Wolterton Hall to shoot the campaign faces around the large country house, from the drawing rooms and bedrooms to the green fields. Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2025 The seniors’ residence, called Coopers Chase, is itself a kind of fantasy, converted from a pile of an English country house that is not quite Downton Abbey but close enough. Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025 When Rudi’s family arrives at their country house, signs of an intruder spark suspicion. Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for country house
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Noun
  • Rather than the great house, this boxed set details the Marauder States in the time of 3015.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Salesforce is still a great house, but the neighborhood is deteriorating.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The first sign that this 19th-century residence is not your standard Pinterest archetype of a Brooklyn town house appears on the front door—a bespoke bronze knob that looks strangely like Globey from Pee-wee’s Playhouse.
    Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The project, The District at Ten Mile, is spearheaded by Ahlquist Development and would include dining and retail, a hotel, over 500,000 square feet of office space including medical offices, industrial space for partner Adler Industrial, and up to 400 town houses.
    Marcus Dorsey, Idaho Statesman, 23 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The region's housing inventory remains low, particularly in metropolitan counties compared to rural areas.
    Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The first occurred on March 13, 2020, when an officer visited White’s apartment, in an affordable-housing complex outside Sydney.
    Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Country house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/country%20house. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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