Chinese houses
Americannoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
She does not seem to have got the entrée into Chinese houses of the richer class.
From Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin by Eighth Earl of Elgin James
I escaped sometimes, and found myself in Chinese houses, with cane tables, &c.
From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
During the first two or three years at Chang Te Fu we lived in unhealthy Chinese houses, which were low and damp.
From How I Know God Answers Prayer The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time by Rosalind Goforth
The Chinese houses have not so many stories as ours; in the towns there is one floor above the ground floor, but in the country there are no rooms up stairs.
From Far Off by Favell Lee Mortimer
When you get macaroons and little cakes here in straight Chinese houses you realize that neither we nor the Europeans were the first to begin eating.
From Letters from China and Japan by John Dewey
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.