semi

chiefly British

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of semi Quarterfinals and semis are Tuesday, and the final is Wednesday afternoon. Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2025 Quarterfinals and semis are Tuesday, the final is Wednesday afternoon. Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2025 The Brown County Sheriff's Office said in a post on Facebook that the accident involving the semi and train occurred around 2:15 p.m. April 4 on US-14 in Sleepy Eye, about 100 miles southwest of Minneapolis. Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025 At least one person died and two others were injured in a crash between three semis and four other vehicles in Palmer County, said Cesar Marquez, city manager and fire chief in Bovina. Phil Helsel, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for semi
Recent Examples of Synonyms for semi
Noun
  • The plan, formerly known as Growing MKE, no longer includes developing duplexes in single-family home zones due to public opposition.
    Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 8 July 2025
  • Project Neighbors has bought several lots near Valparaiso University’s Heritage Hall to build four duplexes.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • For the last 50 years, the photos have sat largely untouched, tucked away in the drawer of an antique credenza in Ms. Clark’s Van Nuys ranch house.
    Nathan Taylor Pemberton, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The benefit applies if a property owner wants to replace what was a 1940s ranch house with a home constructed to today’s fire code and other modern standards.
    Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The campus would also include 220 town houses and apartments, a 125-room Homewood Suites by Hilton hotel, 20,000 square feet of retail space and a 640-stall parking garage.
    Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 26 June 2025
  • The Manhattan town house where an Italian man was allegedly tortured for weeks in an attempt to gain access to his bitcoin wallet is seen in New York City, May 29, 2025.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • The jury was shown transcripts of angry emails and text messages between Serafini and his wife’s parents showing a heated, ongoing dispute over a $1.3 million loan from his in-laws to help fund his wife’s fledgling horse ranch business.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2025
  • Ranch: The Ranch Snack Wrap delivers a satisfying burst of cool ranch goodness, with hints of garlic and onion.
    Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • In Racine, a 898-square-foot bungalow, in the 1300 block of Kewaunee Street, sold for $65,000.
    Dakota Barnes-Rush, jsonline.com, 7 July 2025
  • These lonely senior citizens arrive at a Los Angeles bungalow where Fish, newly discharged from an asylum, wrestles with an imagined demon and Poinsettia mourns a fantasy romance with composer Giacomo Puccini.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Another boon of this cottage garden staple is its deer resistance.
    Lauren David, Southern Living, 6 July 2025
  • The tale toggles between Los Angeles during the 1950s McCarthy era, and 2018, when Chazan's granddaughter Gemma decamps to his old Carmel cottage to meet her own personal and professional destiny.
    Marco della Cava, USA Today, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • General Electric fills those tract houses with appliances.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 4 June 2024
  • RuPaul was born in San Diego in 1960, the third of four children and the only boy, and brought up in a yellow three-bedroom tract house, one of four models in a housing development called Michelle Manor.
    Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • The median sales price of condos and townhomes didn’t move at all, staying right at $400,000 in June.
    Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 3 July 2025
  • Sanders Development Group will build six three-story attached townhomes and a four-story, 15-unit apartment building with commercial space on the southern half of block D, which fronts Russell Commons Park.
    Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025

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“Semi.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/semi. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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