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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Russo, who had lived in West Hollywood for 24 years, thought she had found her paradise: a single-wide trailer in the Tahitian Terrace mobile home park across the street from Will Rogers State Beach.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2025
The Silvas said the cost of insuring a single-wide mobile home manufactured in the 1970s was insurmountable.
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
She was already homeless when Ian struck, a situation that began in June after the rent for the single-wide trailer she’d been staying in increased to $1,000 per month from $728.
From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2022
A shadow shifted toward the back of the single-wide.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
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