How to Use tract house in a Sentence

tract house

noun

• The floor plan before them showed a three-bedroom, high-end tract house on a cul-de-sac in the San Fernando Valley.
  — Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
• Most of the homes are tract houses, and many have taken on the personality of their owners with upgrades over the years.
  — Martina Schimitschek, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019
• 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.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive.com, 22 June 2019
• The tight-knit, family-friendly community of Mira Mesa epitomizes San Diego’s tract house boom of the 1970s.
  — Martina Schimitschek, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019
• 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.
  — Ellen Pall, The New York Review of Books, 25 Aug. 2020
• 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.
  — Jessica Boddy, Popular Science, 3 Feb. 2020
• 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.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• According to Adweek, Hollywoodland was actually a subdivision of tract houses and the sign was a billboard for the development.
  — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 3 May 2020
• 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.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive.com, 23 June 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024