How to Use house in a Sentence

house

1 of 2 noun
  • He made enough noise to wake the whole house.
  • Would you like to come to my house for dinner?
  • I spent the weekend just puttering around the house.
  • Some might have worked in-house.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Came to the front of the house.
    — Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
  • Then maybe a house at some point.
    — Jeremy Rutherford, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • No man will call your house home.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • This sweet cat came with the house!
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The first drink is on the house, too.
    — Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Our house is small, but it’s not cramped.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The house is a mess a lot of the time.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The Roots served as the house band.
    — Scott Bauer, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • And how do the front-of-house folks treat you?
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 June 2026
  • Her iPhone was left in the house.
    — Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
  • And how did the front-of-house folks treat you?
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 June 2026
  • And how did the front-of-house folks treat you?
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2026
  • And how did the front-of-house folks treat you?
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2026
  • And how did the front-of-house folks treat you?
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Apr. 2026
  • But the fire in the red brick church house had swelled.
    — Holly Yan, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Even the vowels are on the house.
    — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Balls are allowed in the house.
    — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The houses are very spread apart.
    — Josh Campbell, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Is there a house limit for length?
    — Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Every inch of our house was filled with love.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Protect all sides of your house.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 28 May 2026
  • There are houses at each end of the sheet.
    — Matt Slater, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The pantry is bare and the house is in shambles.
    — Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Neil Young grew up in a house just across the street.
    — Hazlitt, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Worry ‘bout your house — not mine.
    — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 18 June 2026
  • Around midnight, the house caught fire.
    — Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2026

house

2 of 2 verb
  • The carpenter built casing to house the hot water pipes.
  • More prisons are needed to house the growing number of inmates.
  • The museum houses an impressive collection of jewels.
  • Just be sure to eat the yolk, as that is where choline is housed!
    — Lauren Manaker, SELF, 5 Mar. 2026
  • It was housed at the Schomburg.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 21 Jan. 2026
  • And now the permanent home to house it.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
  • The room they're housed in now at the shelter is quiet.
    — Veronica Ortega, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The triple is housed inside a steel chassis.
    — New Atlas, 12 Sep. 2025
  • And housed in a former doughnut shop, no less.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
  • All can be housed in the spacious garage onboard, of course.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 14 May 2026
  • The unit is still in the region, housed at an undisclosed base.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
  • He was housed alone, officials said.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The space that houses Prophecy was once a jazz club.
    — Carolyn Heller, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The complaint states that most of the girls who died were housed in two cabins in that area.
    — Bradford Betz, FOXNews.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The concealer is smartly housed in the lid of the jar.
    — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 10 June 2026
  • Another major change to the store is where the footwear is housed.
    — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Along with the food shelf, the building also houses a thrift shop.
    — Ashley Grams, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • At its peak, the camp housed some two hundred thousand people.
    — Annie Hylton, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
  • To ask cities or anyone else that helps with rental assistance to stay housed.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The candle, which is housed in a glass jar, has a 150-hour burn time.
    — Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The restaurant is housed in an old ice-skating shelter tucked away in the park.
    — Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
  • Heckart repeated that while she is now housed, her story is far from over.
    — Lyanne Wang, CBS News, 10 June 2026
  • The former space now houses Masao.
    — Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The buildings housed monks' cells, ovens, kitchens and storage areas.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The space will house up to 540 employees.
    — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Dees was one of hundreds of men being housed out of state in private prisons.
    — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 29 May 2026
  • The shop is housed in a former beauty salon, steps from the bakery.
    — Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The dock is housed in a fanless aluminum enclosure that runs cool and is silent.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The two bells originally housed in two bell towers at the church.
    — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026
  • He was not slated to be housed in his own wing as of Saturday evening.
    — CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026

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