How to Use terrace in a Sentence

terrace

1 of 2 noun
  • For sale: large three-bedroom house with adjoining terrace and garden.
  • Some rooms have their own terraces.
    — Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Doors spill out to a koi pond and an ocean-view terrace.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Opt for the sheltered roof terrace and take your time.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2026
  • Longer term, a rooftop terrace will be added to the complex.
    — Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 23 June 2026
  • By day, guests linger over breakfast or lunch on the ocean-view terrace.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Plus, there's a rooftop terrace, a pool, and a four-level spa.
    — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2023
  • There’s also a small rooftop terrace with a bar that’s open in the warmer months.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 May 2026
  • The nine lap pool suites are a fan favorite for their walk-out terraces with plunge pools.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2026
  • Just about every room opens to a terrace leading to the vast roof deck.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Arched glass doors lead out to a terrace that overlooks the pool down below.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The sweet, slow rhythm of coffee on a sidewalk terrace.
    — Danielle Postel-Vinay, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The main deck was conceived as a loggia, or roofed terrace, on the sea.
    — Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The smaller tower will have its own rooftop terrace too.
    — New Atlas, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The roof terrace can only be accessed by stairs.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Guests love it for its heated pool, rooftop terrace, and charcoal grills.
    — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The sloped, landscaped half-acre lot offers a terrace and a two-car garage.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 30 Jan. 2026
  • There's no beehives and there's no roof garden terraces.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 13 Jan. 2026
  • From this floor, folding glass doors spill open to a private rooftop terrace with city views.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Each room has great views of the city, and most have a terrace for enjoying the evening.
    — Megan Dubois, USA Today, 13 May 2026
  • Find rooms with private terraces, pools, and even caves, all with gorgeous caldera views.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 16 May 2023
  • There's also a four-car garage, home gym and rooftop terrace with stunning ocean views.
    — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Find rooms with private terraces, pools, and even caves, all with gorgeous caldera views.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
  • There is another terrace off the great room that runs the width of the building.
    — E.b. Solomont, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
  • My room opened onto a terrace with stairs leading to quiet coves.
    — Jenn Rice, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Walls of glass open out onto two spacious terraces on either side of the great room.
    — Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 9 June 2026
  • Air France is building a new lounge that will have an outdoor terrace.
    — Miami Herald, 18 June 2026
  • What could be dreamier than breakfast on the Çırağan terrace?
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2026
  • One five-star reviewer said the string lights added a special touch to their terrace.
    — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2023
  • His voice never aged, the cat on the café terrace staring down the moon when all the squares have gone to bed.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025

terrace

2 of 2 verb
  • Paths, fences, a pool, and terrace grace these picture-perfect grounds.
    — courant.com, 14 May 2021
  • Top floor has master suite opening to terrace, plus three bedrooms.
    — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2019
  • For a thousand years, locals have tamed the cliffs by terracing them with stone walls from top to bottom.
    — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 2023
  • For nearly a century, this had been dairy country, and the rounded, coastal hills were terraced from decades of grazing.
    — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The 36 cottages and suites are terraced up the surrounding hillsides.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Beds of herbs, produce and flowers are terraced into the hillside, flanked by stone walls and bordered by open fields and a lush valley.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • That showcase amenity — a lazy river-style pool made for long summer days and nights — sits at the foot of the home’s lush and terraced backyard.
    — David Caraccio may 9, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2026
  • The remaining pools, either terraced higher or built above ground, were not affected.
    — Brittany Anas, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Excavated and terraced, the two courts are rimmed by seating for hundreds of spectators.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Finally, one last floor up is the private rooftop deck, with its lap pool and terrace both enclosed by sliding glass and topped by a retractable sun awning for shade.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Another popular option is to terrace sections of the slope within your lawn to create flat planting areas.
    — oregonlive, 3 July 2022
  • How about perking up that drab Zone 5 to 8 patio or terrace with a sundial and some compact flowering plants?
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The backyard was located on a sunny, south-facing slope where the owners had recently installed a new deck and terraced the yard with concrete.
    — Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 29 July 2024
  • Around them was tranquil but functional farmland that was sensually subtropical, the fields terraced and piled with shocks of grain.
    — Lawrence Osborne, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2015
  • With terracing on three sides, the home of a club crowned English champions three years in a row during the 1920s had to go.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The soil is actually quite poor––limestone, sandstone, and marine upper cretaceous marls––and the vineyards terraced, so the grapes have to struggle a bit to prove their worth.
    — John Mariani, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • During the day, the family worked on terracing the rows, building retaining walls and installing drip irrigation.
    — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2019
  • All those stones Palacios lugged up the hill were used to terrace the garden and form a stairway up to two perches — a little stone bench and an oak tree with a low branch that forms a natural lounge chair.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2023
  • The resort features a modernized colonial design, and each suite has an expansive bedroom, living room, and terrace that overlooks the lagoon and private beach.
    — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2021
  • While Caesars is mum on the official overnight capacity limit, the hotel caps terrace occupants at 75 guests.
    — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Dynamics were harshly terraced with misjudged volume on brass entrances and lower-register string phrases that either got lost or assumed unnecessary prominence in unblended sound.
    — Marcus Overton, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 June 2017
  • By 1938, Leitch had made Goodison the first stadium to have seats and terracing on all four sides, all of them double-decker, which was also groundbreaking.
    — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • That said, Peak is worth the effort, and apparently is so seven days a week for those who come for the view from The Edge terrace a floor below, or the snazzy bar that stocks more than 200 spirits.
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • But this is just the start of an upgrade to the 50-year-old venue that will expand and terrace its seating and improve entry points in hopes of making the small hillside bowl into a regional attraction in the sunny southeast corner of the city.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Sep. 2021
  • At the ranch, optimally situated between Central Coast wine country and its beaches, campsites are terraced into 43 acres of rugged hills with incredible views.
    — Jenna Blough, Outside Online, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Around 4,500 years ago, ancient engineers and workers terraced the little island in the Cyclades archipelago in the Aegean Sea, creating a sort of step pyramid.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The walks up to Villa Jovis, Belvedere di Tragara, and the Giardini di Augusto terraced botanical gardens all start here.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2026
  • In the ’90s, China’s Loess Plateau, a vast expanse of arable but powdery soil, had been all but ruined by deforestation and grazing, until a massive effort was undertaken to terrace the land and reforest it.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2020

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