How to Use manor house in a Sentence

manor house

noun
  • What’s your favorite book set in a manor house (aside from your own)?
    — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Thousands of pieces of art and furniture went to his manor houses.
    — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
  • All of the items were found at Oxburgh Hall, a manor house in Norfolk.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 19 Aug. 2020
  • In their hometown, Simon lived in the large manor house across the river from her.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The manor house, largely made from hamstone and brick, is divided among two floors.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Parts of the manor house will open to the public this summer in time for the exhibition.
    — Catherine Sabino, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The show is structured as a manor house murder mystery and wears its influences on its sleeve.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Kahn designed the main manor house, as well as the coach house and the gatehouse on the 15-acre estate.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 16 July 2024
  • In some dude’s library in a manor house 70 miles (quite a schlep in those days) from London?
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • They were photographed at their manor house for British Vogue in 2018.
    — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
  • The hotel has 78 rooms and suites including 20 in the main manor house.
    — Jonathan Samuels, theweek, 31 Dec. 2024
  • What were manor houses, exactly?
    — Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The neighboring old manor house is now a private event space and occasional movie set.
    — Essence, 18 June 2024
  • The neighboring old manor house is now a private event space and occasional movie set.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 10 Sep. 2024
  • An English manor house is not a war zone, but Kate behaves otherwise.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The manor house, which is attached to the castle, retains a historical charm.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The rooms, manor house, spa, guides, chefs, and 58,000-acre grounds are all at your disposal.
    — Ian Proctor, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Nell, 19, is the kitchen maid in a manor house who is desperate for love, recognition, and freedom.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The Tudor manor house was gifted to the nation at the end of the First World War.
    — Tim Ross, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2018
  • He’s brought to Villiam’s manor house and left there, at which point Lapvona — both the town and the novel — spin off-kilter.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
  • Two girls born on the same day in a manor house see their lives altered by an act of revenge that changes their place within a powerful family.
    — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The site offers a gorgeous manor house and grounds that was donated to the public in 1957.
    — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 29 Sep. 2022
  • To prepare for the latter, Jett and Jax have been going on practice egg hunts in the manor house's library.
    — Diane Herbst, Peoplemag, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Most of Trần’s movie is—or appears to be—about food and drink, and it is set in, around, and near a manor house in provincial France.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Is baronet Sir Henry Baskerville bound to inherit the curse as well as the family manor house?
    — Eliza McGraw, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Caprese salad and swordfish lunches can be enjoyed poolside, under a vast beach club-style cabana, or along the manor house’s long table.
    — Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Eyes Wide Shut, with Hedda and her new husband throwing a bacchanal of a party in a manor house.
    — Ben Jureidini, Them., 22 Aug. 2025
  • That was recorded at Richard Branson’s studio in Oxford at a place called the Manor, which was a manor house.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Where my world was hemmed in by ridgelines and holler roads, Mary Lennox’s world was hemmed in by fog and wind and the low moan of a manor house that seemed to breathe on its own.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
  • At the center of the spread is an 18th-century manor house measuring just over 8,600 square feet.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2026

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