railroad flat

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Recent Examples of railroad flat The apartment’s railroad flat configuration is a plus. Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 31 July 2024 Shelton moved with her five kids to a railroad flat on Blake Street in Berkeley. Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2022 Shortly after Howe was born, in 1940, her family moved from Buffalo to a railroad flat near Harvard Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for railroad flat
Noun
  • This is a good option for studio apartment or dorm room-dwellers, or for people who typically cook one serving at a time.
    Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The rooms are longer and narrower than typical studio apartments, but each of them has a window since they are positioned around the perimeter of the building.
    Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The Secret Life of Pets actor also wanted to include a window in his shower because his favorite garden apartment in Chicago had that feature.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • From $151 per night. BOOK NOW Pink Paradise in New Orleans, Louisiana This historic garden apartment—built in 1875— is a stunner on the inside and out.
    Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The duplex apartment measures roughly 9,200 square feet with five bedrooms and six bathrooms.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Pascal Chevallier Her duplex apartment, in the haut-monde 16th arrondissement, delights in a similar mix of bourgeois deference to French classicism and pleasure-seeking quirk.
    Ellie Pithers, Vogue, 31 July 2024
Noun
  • The inn also offers two efficiency apartments for longer-term stays.
    Korrin Bishop, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Last fall, city officials put forward a plan for the local housing authority to take control of the remaining trust properties and operate them until they could be turned over to developers who would tear down and rebuild them as efficiency apartments for homeless residents.
    Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • Use it as a granny flat, a tiny lakehouse, or a detached studio or office.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Also known as granny flats, backyard tiny homes or in-law suites, ADUs are a growing trend in home building and renovation.
    Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The Lions ran the ball with authority, passed it with panache and ranked in the top five in the league in both third-down efficiency and red zone production.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
  • These efficiencies allow professionals to focus on higher-value activities, such as mentoring students or driving innovation.
    Dr. Aviva Legatt, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • One San Francisco property, a waterfront condo listed by Sotheby's International Realty in the city's South Beach neighborhood, boasts a listing price of $7,200,000 in a market where the median sale price is $1,340,000, according to Redfin.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Christian Espinoza, who owns a condo inside Charlotte Motor Speedway, gathered 88,000 followers and 3.5 million likes by sharing the views from his unusual home.
    Jeff Gluck, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Early on the morning of Jan. 17, police responded to a burning duplex in Deerfield Beach, Fla., the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release.
    Liam Quinn, People.com, 21 Jan. 2025
  • When Jordan Williams purchased his diamond-in-the-rough Greenwich Village apartment, a 900-square-foot one-bedroom duplex with a massive terrace in Manhattan, his mother gave him some helpful advice: hire an interior designer.
    Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 16 Jan. 2025

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“Railroad flat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/railroad%20flat. Accessed 26 Jan. 2025.

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