single-family

[ sing-guhl-fam-uh-lee, -fam-lee ]

adjective

1. designed or suitable for one family of average size:

   single-family homes.

Example Sentences

It destroys families and leaves children to be raised in single-family households.

From The Daily Beast

The clinic, a large house surrounded by single-family homes, is immaculate, smelling of fresh cilantro and coffee beans.

From The Daily Beast

Yee was, as Brown writes, a Brown acolyte at one point, representing a district of middle class single-family homeowners.

From The Daily Beast

This is a far cry from the 50s and 60s, when California abounded in new owner-occupied single family homes.

From The Daily Beast

“They were mailing applications to the state for licenses for single-family residences on addresses they made up,” says Hogin.

From The Daily Beast

Not a single family of tropical plants but is here represented by several species.

From Project Gutenberg

Not only is the group thus tied or bound together by nebulous clouds, it has other tokens of forming but a single family.

From Project Gutenberg

A single family named Wright, who are very excellent people, keep almost all the inns on the road.

From Project Gutenberg

Closely allied to the latter suborder is the suborder Plecoptera, which includes the single family Perlid or Stone-flies.

From Project Gutenberg

The result is one of the most sumptuous volumes in illustration of a single family ever published.

From Project Gutenberg