How to Use brownstone in a Sentence

brownstone

noun
  • She lives in a beautiful brownstone in Manhattan.
  • The front door to the brownstone had been left ajar.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Click here to see all the photos of the Park Slope brownstone.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 May 2026
  • That puts it on par with a large brownstone in New York City.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Adams even gave reporters a tour of the brownstone to try and dispel the rumors.
    — Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • That year Santa brought us a miniature brownstone, tea shop and cafe.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2018
  • There are $4 million brownstones across the street from housing projects.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2018
  • His office was in a brownstone, three blocks up from my apartment, on the second floor in the back.
    — Donald Antrim, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The set of the family’s brownstone apartment helped with that.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Oct. 2022
  • But for a job at a brownstone or townhome, the process can be a little different.
    — Charles Passy, WSJ, 9 May 2021
  • The brownstone was built for this, a product of a culture that predates the nursing home.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Annie Schlechter Reiss’s studio is on the top floor of the brownstone.
    — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Tourists with rolling bags swept in and out of the huge brownstone mansion next door that has become a bustling bed-and-breakfast.
    — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Then, the tenants in the brownstone her parents bought in 1982 moved out.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 Oct. 2025
  • All of the houses had been built during the final third of the last century, and were of brick or brownstone.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Built in 2018, the brownstone has five bedrooms and four-and-a-half bathrooms.
    — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 19 Oct. 2020
  • In those brownstones, the icons scribbled about notepads and surrendered those eternal drafts to thin paper zines.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Some of the best parties on the course happen on the stoops of brownstones along Lafayette Avenue.
    — Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • That apartment happens to be at the top of four floors of winding stairs in a Park Slope brownstone.
    — Aly Walansky, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The living room of the Greenwich Village brownstone fell silent.
    — Kara Voght, Washington Post, 29 June 2024
  • The third, a Bed-Stuy brownstone, is the asset that is most likely available to help bail him out.
    — Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Back Bay is a historic neighborhood known for its historic brownstones.
    — Riley Rourke, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Barker says the client originally fell in love with the ceilings of the brownstone, but a lot of work was needed.
    — Wendy Goodman, The Cut, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Kids can slide open the peek-a-cover to reveal nine wooden block figures, each housed in their own window of the beloved brownstone.
    — Pamela Brill, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Like, who is actually living in these brownstones?
    — Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 3 Apr. 2026
  • We were given free housing and lived on the top two floors of a brownstone at 209 Madison.
    — Abby Ellin, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Bathrooms The Miraval brownstone has a powder room and two or three full bathrooms.
    — Benjamin C Tankersley, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The massive four-story brownstone is the sickly shade of green mold, except in the places the façade has chipped off completely.
    — Bridget Read, Curbed, 15 Nov. 2024
  • In Boerum Hill, an older couple just stepped out of a brownstone and started banging pots and pans.
    — Evan Rosen, New York Daily News, 30 May 2024
  • But their new home isn’t in a Back Bay brownstone, South End condo, or downtown high-rise.
    — Boston.com Real Estate, 6 Nov. 2019

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