How to Use prefab in a Sentence

prefab

adjective

• Yet the prefab house is built for five and has many of the markings of a clever tiny home.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 26 June 2018
• In fact, these prefab pieces can be as big as four decks in height and span one-half of the ship’s width.
  — Ayesha Khan, CNT, 21 July 2017
• The prefab storage sheds are an upgrade from the first set.
  — Kimberly Veklerov, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 2018
• My parents can sell the house and buy a prefab unit, five times smaller than the homestead.
  — Longreads, 20 Apr. 2022
• Gone are the prefab offerings, replaced with items made in the kitchen.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2018
• Detainees never did browse the stacks in the two prefab buildings.
  — miamiherald, 26 Oct. 2016
• Here’s a closer look at the prefab projects that impressed us this year for those reasons and more.
  — Jenny Xie, Curbed, 27 Dec. 2018
• Through a gate is the dirt parking lot, and to the right a low-slung prefab structure, the nerve center here, the gun store with the machine shop out back.
  — Michael Paterniti, GQ, 7 Mar. 2018
• Fences that took less time to build because they were planned out ahead of time, or even bought as an E-Z prefab kit.
  — Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2017
• Fences that took less time to build because they were planned out ahead of time, or even bought as an E-Z prefab kit.
  — Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2017
• Even the games that seem purely prefab can still have a live element in them.
  — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 1 Dec. 2020
• Berkeley Homes, another big firm, has bought a site in Kent to build 1,000 prefab homes a year.
  — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
• But this year, forget the the generic, prefab constructions on sale at the grocery store.
  — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 8 Sep. 2020
• The irony is that the artisanal-cocktail movement was born, in no small part, out of a rejection of prefab drinks.
  — Eric Felten, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
• By the 1760s, a prefab sheet of silver started the caddies’ life, saving labor.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 28 Jan. 2020
• Grace Kuo, who added a prefab ADU for her daughter and son-in-law, said the original budget went up by 24% from the initial bid.
  — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• More conventional was the choice of prefab wall and roof panels.
  — Josh Garskof, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
• Like most products of the K-pop assembly line, Yerin Baek began as a teenager in a prefab group.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
• Restaurants camp in prefab buildings outside the town walls.
  — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2023
• The Plús Hús is also prefab — arriving on-site from a flat kit of parts that was assembled on-site in one day.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2022
• The first prototype—a satin one-piece worn over a prefab Merry Widow corset and paired with rabbit ears and a fluffy tail—looked too much like a bathing suit.
  — Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2017
• Chula Vista is opening a first-of-its-kind homeless shelter with 65 prefab units.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2023
• Our job, too, is to act on preëxisting knowledge: many of the solutions to the crisis are also prefab.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• In the prefab barn beside his house are three combines, huge machines for harvesting grain crops.
  — Mike Sager, Esquire, 25 Feb. 2015
• Built from concrete or fiberglass, the often-prefab pools are lined with tile, vinyl or gunite (a blend of sand, cement and water).
  — Allison Duncan, WSJ, 29 July 2022
• That additional expense is what is keeping a lot of builders out of prefab.
  — Jennifer Castenson, Forbes, 7 July 2021
• Azraq, run by the U.N. refugee agency, was set up in April 2014 as a cluster of several thousand prefab metal shacks.
  — Bloomberg.com, 17 May 2017
• Lazor's FlatPak House was a case study in modern prefab construction when it was built in 2004.
  — Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, 7 May 2021
• In another, a vast landscape of prefab buildings extends into an endless horizon of gray.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• Thanks to exposure in magazines like Dwell (which has an entire newsletter dedicated to prefab homes), modular structures don’t have the same stigma to overcome.
  — Sofia Jeremias, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024