How to Use residential in a Sentence

residential

adjective
  • The company offers insurance for commercial and residential customers.
  • One residential street a few blocks north of me stood out on the map.
    WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The first base is inside a house in the city’s residential area.
    Charles Infosino, The Enquirer, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Most of the waste rock in the residential area has since been removed by the EPA and its contractors.
    Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The man fell from the off-ramp into a residential yard 30 feet below.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The new site is farther from the residential area that had concerned many.
    Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2024
  • The venue, which lies in a residential area and has operated for around nine years, has drawn the ire of its neighbors.
    Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al, 1 June 2023
  • Bolte was captured in a residential neighborhood about a half-mile from the prison.
    David K. Li, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • For the last 14 months, rows of matching blue tents have filled a parking lot on the edge of a residential area in south Los Angeles.
    oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Cars were flattened and trees burned out in moonscapes that had been residential streets.
    TIME, 10 Oct. 2023
  • But for many who love the city without wanting to be on The Strip, there are few residential options—until now.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 9 May 2023
  • Third Street, where Scott was killed, is a residential street with long lines of apartment buildings.
    Moriah Balingit, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Dulce lives on a residential street near the BR-163, in a modest house with a yard decorated by statues of a cow and a horse.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • In the hours that followed, Sero ran amok in a nearby residential area in eastern Seoul as people looked on in shock.
    Stella Kim, NBC News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The gun was taken Thursday from a marked cruiser that was parked in the garage of a residential complex, the Globe reported.
    Adam Sennott, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
  • And that’s the idea, the concept of converting office space into residential space in big cities.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Firefighters found the man lying on the ground between two homes in a residential area.
    Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Reschke and Primo are tackling the largest portion of the $520 million LaSalle residential project.
    Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2024
  • Set on a quiet street bordering the edge of the Left Bank, the unmarked entrance is just the first sign of its private, residential ambiance.
    Vogue, 28 Sep. 2023
  • What’s more, Neumann had since moved on to a new venture called Flow — a version of WeWork for residential renters.
    Peter Cohan, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • He was then sent to a residential treatment center, relapsed and was sent back.
    Brian Brant, People.com, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The Citizens West apartments are made up of 80 residential units with a mix of studio and three-bedroom floor plans.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Dec. 2022
  • But once inside, she was plied with alcohol to the point of blacking out, and driven close to 400 miles southwest, across state lines, to a residential home in Phoenix.
    Erin Vivid Riley, The New Republic, 29 July 2023
  • The nameless shop in the residential neighborhood of El Vedado is one of dozens of tiny grocery stores that have sprung up around Cuba in recent months.
    Andrea Rodríguez, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2023
  • One Israeli, a 70-year-old man, was killed in the central Israeli city of Rehovot when a rocket fired from Gaza hit a residential building.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
  • There were 84 units in the building, a mixture of residential and commercial spaces, the mayor said.
    CBS News, 30 May 2023
  • Its military drove tanks through residential areas of the city and Hamas fired rockets.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 15 May 2024
  • For the first time in over a decade, residential real estate across the world has entered into a period of falling home prices.
    Lance Lambert, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2023
  • An airstrike Thursday smashed a residential building to rubble in the Bureij refugee camp several miles south of Gaza City.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 3 Nov. 2023
  • An unknown number of Grand Canyon University students were displaced after a fire broke out at a mid-rise residential building near the school Sunday morning.
    Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 27 Oct. 2024

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