semi

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of semi According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the contents of the semi have yet to be identified. Karen Bartunek, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2024 In the second semi, the #2 & #3 seeds played to a dead heat after twelve matches, tied up 6-6, forcing a one game tiebreaker to determine the finalist. Todd Boss, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024 The lone driver of that semi was removed with only minor injuries, according to Rice. Karen Bartunek, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2024 My 28-year-old son was killed by a semi in a hit-and-run. Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 7 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for semi 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for semi
Noun
  • Eureka Recycling will continue to collect recycling for single-family homes, duplexes, triplexes and fourplex residential properties.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Some are sprawling cave suites cut into the soft stone, others are airy duplexes where your bed overlooks your private pool.
    Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • At Will Rogers State Historic Park, where the famous movie cowboy had a sprawling ranch overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, the ranch house and other historic buildings were destroyed, according to a news release from California State Parks.
    Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Cowboy Will Rogers’ famous ranch house and other historic buildings around it were also lost to the wildfires, according to California State Parks officials.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Eighteen months ago, the Jewish Museum London, which occupied an idiosyncratic, homely town house in Camden, where my wife and I used to take our kids on rainy weekends, closed its doors for lack of funding.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Along with the tree, bows can be found everywhere inside (and outside) the fashion designer’s West Village town house.
    Kristen Bateman, Architectural Digest, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The family has launched a GoFundMe to keep the ranch afloat.
    Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Situated on 3,800 peaceful wooded acres, it was originally founded in the 1970s to be a working farm, cattle ranch, hunting reserve, and home for an Italian duke and duchess.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Tina Knowles, mother to Beyoncé and Solange, shared that her Malibu bungalow was destroyed in the Palisades fire.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Barker told Newsweek that, even though her new home is smaller than her parents' kitchen, her new bungalow features two bedrooms, one bathroom, a lounge, and a kitchen, as well as a garage shared with neighbors, which operates on a first-come-first-served basis.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Your art need not be on the walls, in fact: At this mountain farmland boutique resort, the cottages each come with a canvas that covers a sliding barn door that separates the living area from the bedroom.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Naturally, Wiggins’s first priority was to preserve and enhance the spartan cottage’s existing architecture: the façade of rough-hewn local stone, quaint clapboard walls, restored wood floors, and exposed ceiling beams.
    Laura May Todd, Architectural Digest, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • General Electric fills those tract houses with appliances.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 4 June 2024
  • RuPaul was born in San Diego in 1960, the third of four children and the only boy, and brought up in a yellow three-bedroom tract house, one of four models in a housing development called Michelle Manor.
    Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Jim Victor's and Marie Pelton's old farmhouse is nestled at the bottom of a hill about 15 minutes outside Philadelphia, surrounded by new, upscale townhomes and a park across the winding street.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The townhomes can have up to four bedrooms, three and half baths and will range from 1,963 to 2,336 square feet.
    Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 7 Jan. 2025

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