single-wide
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of single-wide
First recorded in 1965–70; by analogy with double-wide ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Grandmother Sara Folger sits in the kitchen of her single-wide trailer, the Rocky Mountains looming in the distance, and remembers the Bozeman, Montana she fell in love with decades ago.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
At the time, Hoover says she was poor and living in a single-wide trailer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
The family was only one payment away from owning their single-wide mobile home and like many other northern New Mexico residents whose homes were in the path of the flames, the Silvas were uninsured.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2022
When she self-published her first young adult novel, “Slammed,” in January 2012, Hoover was making $9 an hour as a social worker and living in a single-wide trailer with her husband and their three sons.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
For the last five years, they’d been in the same single-wide, the result of a landlord who owed Jimmy something.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
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