How to Use ranch house in a Sentence

ranch house

noun
  • Joe left his phone and wallet at the ranch house.
    — Jon Billman, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Collin moseyed back to the ranch house and waited.
    — Jon Billman, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Dan lives in a forest-green ranch house close to downtown Forks.
    — Lauren Smiley, Wired, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Hank came home a week later to the couple’s modest ranch house.
    — Gina Kolata Kim Raff, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • His staff often has to yank him out of his ranch house in Austin to get on the road.
    — Tad Friend, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Denise’s family was out on a foothill in a large, modern ranch house.
    — Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The ranch house has been converted to the children’s house and school room.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2018
  • In one case, the rancher said the burglars ransacked the kitchen of an old ranch house in search of food.
    — Matt Leach, Fox News, 22 July 2021
  • Every shack, trailer, ranch house and split foyer mortgaged till the end of time.
    — Nathan Hill, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • These two young hounds chased the house cats around the San Ysidro ranch house together.
    — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The ranch house sits on a flood plain three blocks from a sound off the Gulf of Mexico.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Webster and his wife bought a one-story ranch house, 20 acres in the middle of nowhere.
    — Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The site's listing suggests the ranch house could make for a good Airbnb spot or a foreman's house.
    — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Vazquez was interviewed at the ranch house, where women sleep on bunk beds and hang their clothes on a line outside.
    — Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2019
  • The couple, who share a ranch house in Santa Ynez, are deeply bonded.
    — Amy Kaufman, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
  • Other ranch houses and outbuildings dot the land, and one of the units even includes its own church.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2025
  • For the humans on the land, there's a seven-bedroom ranch house with a rock bottom swimming pool.
    — Gordon Dickson, star-telegram, 29 May 2018
  • For my husband, Scott, and me, that house took the form of a 1950s-era brick ranch house.
    — Parker Bowie Larson, ELLE Decor, 12 May 2023
  • In the 1950s, the ubiquitous ranch house had a long roof that straddled a garage.
    — oregonlive, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Among them is this three-bed, two-and-a-half-bath breezy ranch house that stretches out over 2,800 square feet.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 17 Aug. 2018
  • For the last several years, Nash had rarely left his white-stone ranch house in Studio City.
    — Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Besides the main home, a 1,140 square-foot ranch house is also on the property.
    — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
  • At the center sits a stucco ranch house with three bedrooms and three bathrooms in 3,000 square feet.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2020
  • His ranch house designs took the country by storm after World War II.
    — Regina Cole, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The answer is a modest, red-brick ranch house in the quiet Nashville suburb of Goodlettsville.
    — Marisa Spyker, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2019
  • With the settlement money, Wood and Herzberg’s husband bought a ranch house in Mesa.
    — Lauren Smiley, Wired, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Over time, the lawn in front of the ranch house Mendoza was living in began to grow too high, and agents didn’t want to draw attention.
    — Beth Warren, courier-journal.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • By the time Paige and John got the keys to their single-story brick ranch house, the yard hadn’t been mown for several weeks.
    — Marni Jameson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 July 2018
  • The finished part of the lower level is as big as a typical ranch house — 3,111 square feet.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Originally, the home was built in the 1960s as a single-story ranch house.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 27 Sep. 2021

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