How to Use shotgun house in a Sentence

shotgun house

noun
  • The two-room shotgun house was built by his father, grandfather and uncle.
    — Ken Budd, Washington Post, 25 May 2022
  • Some bespoke shotgun houses will build a 10 gauge for you but be prepared to pay five figures.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The drought made the already insubstantial dirt weak and powdery, and the piers of the shotgun houses sank into the earth.
    — Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2014
  • Then, head over to the two-room shotgun house built by Elvis’ father, Vernon Presley.
    — Verna Gates, al, 30 Dec. 2019
  • History of the Shotgun House True to its unique name, the shotgun house has a storied past.
    — Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Almost all shotgun houses are raised a few feet off the ground, which allows for airflow beneath the home and protects against minor flooding.
    — Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Its diagonal form is partly inspired by the architecture of a shotgun house turned on its axis.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Florence recalled growing up in a shotgun house her father built on that land, and learning to make lye soap from hog fat and dandelion wine from their garden.
    — Essence, 18 June 2024
  • Blocks of dilapidated shotgun houses are sprinkled with the occasional neat brick ranch with flowers in the yard.
    — National Geographic, 16 Jan. 2020
  • After the war, Fred bought a shotgun house in the Down the Bay community of Mobile.
    — Michelle Matthews, AL.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Reporter Connor Giffin explains the working-class origins of the shotgun house.
    — Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Her family lived in a labor camp, sleeping in milk barns before eventually moving into a shotgun house in Lemoore.
    — Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • His father worked in a city power plant, and his mother ran a grocery store out of the front of the family’s shotgun house on West Adams Street.
    — William Yardley, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Mario Perez, who shares a double shotgun house in Mid-City with his daughter and her children, hacked at tree branches on Friday.
    — New York Times, 12 July 2019
  • Bayou Beer Garden first opened in 2009, taking over what had been a coffee shop built into a shotgun house with a large back deck.
    — Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 9 Sep. 2020
  • For three weeks in January, my friend and I rented a 150-year-old shotgun house in New Orleans.
    — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Goodenough owns the building that Carrollton Market called home, an old shotgun house along a strip of neighborhood businesses.
    — Ian McNulty | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 11 Jan. 2021
  • The Domino family lived in a narrow shotgun house on Jourdan Avenue that no longer exists, within sight of the eastern levee of the canal.
    — John L. Dorman, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Shotgun House Exteriors As far as the exterior of shotgun houses goes, there is some variation.
    — Maggie Burch, Southern Living, 19 June 2024
  • LeNoir lives in a narrow shotgun house on Columbia Avenue that her mother built after retiring as a librarian.
    — Clare Proctor, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Aug. 2021
  • He was dressed in uniform — olive-green slacks, shirt, necktie and field cap — and headed for the nearby city of Columbus, where his grandmother, who’d recently died after a heart attack, had lived in a small shotgun house with a full porch.
    — Alexa Mills, Washington Post, 28 May 2021
  • The imagery depicts the bayou, po-boys, shotgun houses, riverboats, brass bands, Mardi Gras Indians, the Superdome and more.
    — Kendra Parks, NOLA.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Modest 19th-century shotgun houses and Creole cottages dominated, with larger ones mixed in throughout.
    — Anne Gisleson, Curbed, 23 May 2018
  • From artwork and china to unique collections, Hoksch's 120-year-old shotgun house in Algiers Point boasts a lively personality.
    — Kadee Krieger, NOLA.com, 9 May 2018
  • That is where Vital Sites has targeted five vacant shotgun houses that date to the 1890s for renovation and reuse as affordable housing.
    — Sheldon S. Shafer, The Courier-Journal, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Amphibiating historic structures has yet to find wide use (though it was used in a shotgun house in New Orleans rehabilitated through the efforts of the actor Brad Pitt).
    — Cornelia Dean, New York Times, 8 July 2019
  • Grayton Beach Grayton Beach’s shotgun houses and independent businesses embody what has disappeared across most of Florida.
    — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2024

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