How to Use brownstone in a Sentence

brownstone

noun

• She lives in a beautiful brownstone in Manhattan.
• Built in 2018, the brownstone has five bedrooms and four-and-a-half bathrooms.
  — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 19 Oct. 2020
• Some of the best parties on the course happen on the stoops of brownstones along Lafayette Avenue.
  — Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Rob Gore stands in the doorway of his Brooklyn brownstone.
  — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 25 Apr. 2020
• The set of the family’s brownstone apartment helped with that.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Oct. 2022
• His office was in a brownstone, three blocks up from my apartment, on the second floor in the back.
  — Donald Antrim, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• Jesse Jackson sat on what looked like a brownstone stoop.
  — Janell Ross, Time, 18 July 2023
• The same is true of the humble brownstone owned by Agnes van Rhijn and her sister Ada Brook across the street.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2022
• That apartment happens to be at the top of four floors of winding stairs in a Park Slope brownstone.
  — Aly Walansky, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2023
• We were given free housing and lived on the top two floors of a brownstone at 209 Madison.
  — Abby Ellin, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
• But for a job at a brownstone or townhome, the process can be a little different.
  — Charles Passy, WSJ, 9 May 2021
• Sai lives in Brooklyn in a beautiful brownstone with Craig, Scout, and Rio.
  — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 18 July 2023
• Shawn Mendes plays the voice of the urbane crocodile, who lives with a family in a New York City brownstone.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2022
• In many late-night gaming sessions in the depths of winter in a leaky old Boston brownstone, the Dell doubled as a space heater.
  — Clifford Atiyeh, Robb Report, 13 Nov. 2023
• The Rawley post, an 1860s brownstone in Gowanus that was once a church, is only a few blocks from Drennan’s apartment.
  — Andrew Aoyama, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2021
• At age 9, Vargas and his family moved from a brownstone to a 20-story building in the Bronx projects.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
• Your Mother star took to Twitter in 2013 to ask his followers for help finding a brownstone in the area.
  — Curbed, 24 Aug. 2022
• Bathrooms The Miraval brownstone has a powder room and two or three full bathrooms.
  — Benjamin C Tankersley, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• Kate kept the Commonwealth Avenue brownstone and Charles moved back in with his father.
  — April White, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
• The young family moved into a small apartment in Park Slope, not far from Paul Auster’s brownstone.
  — New York Times, 27 July 2022
• Irene lives in a handsome brownstone in Harlem with her doctor husband Brian and their two sons.
  — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• After an argument one evening in the spring of 1921, Rosalie left with the two children for her brownstone on the Upper East Side.
  — Melissa Groo, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• Billy Ray gets to go from small-time crook to living in a nice brownstone with all the money in the world and a new job as a commodities trader to set the stage.
  — Tushar Nene, Wired, 22 Dec. 2021
• In the video, Mans and a lover dance with and caress one another tenderly in a Brooklyn brownstone.
  — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 17 Sep. 2021
• Take this Harlem brownstone, home to a couple and their teenage daughter (their other two daughters have already flown the nest).
  — Vanessa Lawrence, ELLE Decor, 28 Apr. 2021
• Our quaint brick and brownstone townhouses became eclipsed by towers of steel and glass.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
• Donovan was raised in Manhattan and now lives in a Brooklyn brownstone.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2020
• My friend’s apartment on the third floor of a brownstone grew increasingly crowded as the night progressed.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
• Coming out of someone’s brownstone or bodega or a boom box, there's always one song.
  — NBC News, 20 June 2020
• Wynne Moore sold the low-maintenance, four-bedroom brownstone at 1579 Main St. in Southlake.
  — Dallas News, 16 May 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024