house
noun
a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
Example Sentences
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Trading houses and financial stocks are leading the gains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Tissot put his Caltech lab to work and found elevated levels of lead in more than half the 50-plus houses they inspected, including his own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
The process: The couple looked at three houses.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Acme conspicuously sets the plot’s inciting actions in 1992—the same year Warner Bros. officially merged its entertainment operations with those of Time Inc., making for one of the largest media houses in the world.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
The streets of New Orleans are quiet and lined with rows of neat houses, manicured lawns, and flowered gardens; it all whizzes past as the night shifts to dawn.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
