two-family house
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The scene: The couple own a two-family house, with the tenants right upstairs.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
Ganiso, 42, who owns a trucking company, bought the two-family house for $55,000 in 2012.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2022
My husband and I live in a two-family house and she lives in the other unit, so she will likely be one of the baby’s main caretakers, after myself and my husband.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2021
The plan was to buy a two-family house and rent out one of the units.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 12, 2015
He dropped Tyrell off at the two-family house they shared with Mr. Waters’s sister and her two sons on Pomona Avenue, a tree-lined street in Newark’s Weequahic section.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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