How to Use big house in a Sentence

big house

noun
  • Ma is walking up the road toward the guru’s big house.
    — Molly Aitken, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Wi-Fi 7 Mesh Deal Got a big house?
    — PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Thank goodness for wealthy people and their big houses.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 7 Dec. 2025
  • However, a lot of big houses have been built on smallish lots.
    — Richard Dahlberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
  • His ambition was always to be a creative director of a big house.
    — Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 19 June 2026
  • The episode ended with Cami getting home to her big house and collapsing on the patio.
    — Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Sina has always been in the fight house (Joshua rented a big house for his team during fight weeks), and there’s always been a massage bed.
    — Chris McKenna, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Boomers stayed in the workforce longer than expected, retired later, and held on to big houses as starter homes disappeared beneath them.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 June 2026
  • My generation of Americans is the first in decades to collectively abandon the dream of a big house.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Stuck in big houses The housing market is where this financial anxiety becomes concrete.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 June 2026
  • Sara wanted to be as close to the city as possible, but Xanthi cared more about having a big house, and none of them wanted to be somewhere that was conservative or had bad schools.
    — Kayla Levy, Curbed, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The number of panels needed depends on the person and home – a single person living in a small place might need four, while a family in a big house might need 40 to cover all their needs.
    — Joshua Pearce, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Aaron’s 3 wishes would be 1) to have the super power to stop time or be invisible, 2) to have infinite money to buy a big house, but not mansion, and 3) to get a new car for his mom.
    — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 29 Oct. 2025
  • How did Henley, a rock star living in a big house on Mulholland Drive, find such a kinship with Thoreau, who famously chose a simple, deliberate life amid nature?
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Wooden signs dot roadsides advertising homes from the $300,000s for a townhome to over $1 million for big houses in the most desirable suburban neighborhoods.
    — Jonathan J. Cooper, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026

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