How to Use housing estate in a Sentence

housing estate

noun
  • The fire destroyed seven of the eight towers at the high-rise housing estate.
    — Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The Gurnos housing estate in Merthyr Tydfil.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 6 May 2026
  • The classic footballing upbringing is playing the game on narrow streets, five-a-side pitches near housing estates or tight school playgrounds.
    — Michael Cox, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The connected network of poles allowed the blaze to move between buildings, an event described as rare in Hong Kong’s dense housing estates.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Many of the more than 4,000 people who lived in the public housing estate in the city’s Tai Po neighborhood were aged 65 and over.
    — Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Old Hamlet’s retainers acquired crumbling public housing estates turning out occupants enabling them to build showy apartments for cash buyers.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The inferno rapidly spread in a public housing estate in the city’s Tai Po neighborhood on Wednesday, trapping people inside.
    — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 28 Nov. 2025
  • The latter film was a crime drama set in a Paris housing estate following the aftermath of a police killing of a 13-year-old Algerian French boy.
    — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 28 May 2026
  • As part of his retelling, Jacob takes his fellow support group members — and, by extension, the audience — back to his early childhood days living in a housing estate called the Meadows with his single mom and younger brother.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The deadly inferno that tore through a high-rise housing estate in Hong Kong killed at least 128 people, authorities said Friday, with dozens of residents still feared trapped on upper floors.
    — Jay Ganglani, NBC news, 27 Nov. 2025
  • The deadly inferno that tore through a high-rise housing estate in Hong Kong has killed at least 128 people, authorities said Friday, with some 200 people still missing.
    — Peter Guo, NBC news, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Separately, the city’s leader announced on Thursday that all housing estates undergoing significant renovations will be inspected for safety.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Hong Kong authorities have also launched immediate reviews of other housing estates in the city, undergoing renovation work, to ensure the buildings and scaffolding meet safety protocols.
    — Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Located in the suburban district of Tai Po, the high-rise housing estate, which had about 4,600 residents, was under a large-scale renovation when the afternoon fire broke out, leaving seven of its eight towers in flames.
    — Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Hong Kong — In just a few short hours on Wednesday afternoon, what began as a small fire on the first floor of an apartment building swelled into a raging inferno that consumed seven high-rise towers on a Hong Kong public housing estate.
    — Samra Zulfaqar, CNN Money, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Authorities planned immediate inspections of many housing estates undergoing major renovations to ensure scaffolding and construction materials meet safety standards.
    — CBS News, 28 Nov. 2025

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