How to Use tract house in a Sentence
tract house
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Most of the homes are tract houses, and many have taken on the personality of their owners with upgrades over the years.
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Martina Schimitschek,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 June 2019
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Midway, as in between downtown Portland and the city of Gresham. Cathy Holmlund has been living in a 1959 ranch-style tract house in outer Southeast Portland for 35 years.
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oregonlive,
6 Sep. 2020
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Set in a dark, cluttered space — the tract house where hermetic Charlie’s soul unfolds — The Whale feels as contrived as a stage play.
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Armond White,
National Review,
15 Mar. 2023
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Joe’s father, an Air Force officer, bought a small tract house with mortgaged furniture; even the children’s bunk beds and the radio were on loan.
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Tribune News Service,
oregonlive.com,
22 June 2019
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In 2017, my family and I bought our house in the Palisades—a 1950s tract house on the same street as three of our friends.
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Juliana Shallcross,
AFAR Media,
29 Jan. 2026
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They’re built closer together than the typical tract house to make the neighborhood more walkable, most with no yards to speak of, but plenty of pocket parks — a boon to busy production workers.
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Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
11 Mar. 2022
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Our modest tract house in a New York suburb was too small for a family of seven; Helen found and moved us into a much bigger, far more elegant one.
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Ellen Pall,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Aug. 2020
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The extra-large hyoid bones in their vocal tract house massive air sacs that amplify their bombastic voice to superlative heights; they are often regarded as the loudest of any land animal.
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Jessica Boddy,
Popular Science,
3 Feb. 2020
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Relying in large part on drywall for its construction, a standard tract house in Levittown cost a little less than eight thousand dollars, the equivalent of about a hundred thousand dollars today.
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Rachel Monroe,
The New Yorker,
16 Jan. 2023
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According to Adweek, Hollywoodland was actually a subdivision of tract houses and the sign was a billboard for the development.
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Martha Sorren,
refinery29.com,
3 May 2020
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The perpetrator took advantage of the false security of suburban tract houses with picture windows and private yards but so little sense of community that residents who saw a prowler in a neighbor’s backyard often just pulled the blinds.
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Tribune News Service,
oregonlive.com,
23 June 2019
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