How to Use stucco in a Sentence

stucco

noun
  • Had enough of the heavy brocade and stucco found all around town?
    — Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2021
  • Outside, the home went from a dark tan stucco to a soft white.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Those events had not stayed within the thick stucco walls of the house.
    — Nell Freudenberger, The New Yorker, 28 July 2024
  • The court was lined with stucco, a kind of plaster, and had traces of paint.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 25 June 2024
  • The stucco facades of many units are spider-webbed with cracks.
    — Paul Brinkmann, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 May 2018
  • Villas are open and airy, with stucco walls and stone flooring.
    — Laura Ratliff, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The house was concrete and tile, all slathered in blinding white stucco.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2018
  • But here, the stucco walls have clean, crisp corners rather than rounded edges.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • The three-story home with a stucco front has six bedrooms, each with its own flair.
    — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 22 May 2025
  • The room had no molding or stucco, its lines as sharp as the lines of his face when the light was dimmed.
    — Jonas Eika, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
  • One such place is adorned with white brick, sage green metal windows, and deep blue stucco.
    — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The villa's façade glows cream and gold in the evening sun, and white stucco statues peer down.
    — Ros Belford, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The stucco and wood structure is on a narrow lot on a winding street.
    — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 9 Nov. 2021
  • What appeared to be two other bullet holes were in the door frame and stucco.
    — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The building has a stucco finish, and the paint is a tan color.
    — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The plants are reliefs of stucco and depict reeds, ferns and rushes.
    — Houston Chronicle, 26 May 2018
  • Most of the houses were close to each other and looked the same—stucco clad in aluminum.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The house had been covered with vines, which were damaging the stucco.
    — Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
  • Inside, echoes of Brazilian jazz bounce off the stucco walls.
    — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The homes are large, often made of stucco and have parlors, sun rooms and living rooms.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Holes marred the front door, while others littered the white stucco around the front windows.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 13 July 2023
  • After several dry weeks and a lot of pollen, one rainy day turned parts of the white stucco brown.
    — Linda Jerkins, ajc, 3 June 2017
  • It is surrounded by a chain-link fence and sits across from a row of two-story stucco homes.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The stone-and-stucco facade opens to arched, floor-to-ceiling windows.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 22 May 2018
  • Since many of the stucco homes are placed on top of a cement slab, the soil from the mudslide weighs more than the house.
    — Madeline Farber, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The shiny silver blade, cutting through the center of the façade, curled back sheets of gray stucco on both sides.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
  • The plan also includes a new pool and 630-square-foot stucco pool house.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The house is proposed to be Spanish-style with stucco and wood accents.
    — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The house is proposed to be Spanish-style with stucco and wood accents.
    — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Gatti-Taylor has repaired the stucco of her home and likes to do house projects.
    — Arlene Becker, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2022

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