How to Use housing estate in a Sentence

housing estate

noun

• What if the Trojan War took place in a Parisian housing estate?
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
• It’s about a girl on a West London housing estate, who is a conduit to the lives of all the other people in her orbit.
  — Michaela Coel, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2021
• He was born in Sydney and raised by a single mother in a public housing estate.
  — Time, 20 May 2022
• The young have been rounded up on street corners, searched at their housing estates, and chased on college running tracks and in shopping malls.
  — Suzanne Sataline, Quartz, 30 Nov. 2019
• Crowds scream at riot police in shopping malls and housing estates.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
• In January, parts of the Kwai Chung public housing estate were locked down for up to a week for mass testing after an outbreak that made headlines across the city.
  — Ezra Cheung, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2022
• The outbreak in a public housing estate and signs of virus found in sewage led to mass testing at dozens of apartment blocks, involving thousands of people.
  — Jinshan Hong, Bloomberg.com, 21 Jan. 2022
• Many social-housing estates have signs banning ball games.
  — The Economist, 9 June 2018
• Schools, day care, shops, sporting venues, restaurants and bars will also feature, making the area more than a simple housing estate.
  — Tom Page, CNN, 3 Oct. 2022
• Let the mandate for equality spring from every farm and crossroads and housing estate in Ireland.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2019
• A week before the vote, amid the housing estates of Toledo’s bland new town there was palpable frustration at the country’s politicians.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
• In fact the public housing estates always have amazing color schemes.
  — Teen Vogue, 30 May 2019
• In Hong Kong, the Department of Health has published a list of the 24 housing estates where the quarantined residents live, as well as dates for when each unit's quarantine is up.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2020
• This social-housing estate, which had 300 apartments in it, was fantastic.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021
• Many of those who stayed in Glasgow were relocated to large housing estates like Drumchapel, Easterhouse, and Castlemilk.
  — Sam Rigby, Quartz, 2 Nov. 2019
• The aggregate number probably doesn’t reflect the market’s gloomy sentiment—prices in some housing estates have fallen more than 10% in just the past month.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2018
• As one group passed through Pimlico, a wealthy area that, like much of London, is home to both mansions and blocks of dense social housing, a middle-aged Black man looked down from the balcony of a public housing estate.
  — Billy Perrigo/london, Time, 8 June 2020
• Sandy Au, a 28-year-old art gallery assistant, feels this nostalgia acutely at an old housing estate where her grandfather lived.
  — Laurel Chor, National Geographic, 1 Sep. 2020
• Luís Alejandro Yero, the doc turns on four young Cubans, currently dossing down in a Moscow prefab housing estate, designed as a refugee transit stop.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Jan. 2023
• Her Watling housewives had been uprooted from the bustle of inner London to an isolated housing estate.
  — Divya Subramanian, The New York Review of Books, 20 Jan. 2020
• When a republican party wins the general election, the monarchy is dismantled and the royal family is sent to a housing estate to live like all the other Brits.
  — Angela Haupt, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• The film has been shooting in Rome and its suburbs, including the local beach resort Ostia, public housing estate Corviale and a variety of neighborhoods off the beaten track.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 18 Feb. 2022
• In four short years, Kaluuya, who is 32 and grew up on a public housing estate in London, has claimed a place in Hollywood among the most consequential leading men of his generation.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
• At the foot of public housing estates, beneath the glitzy lights of busy shopping districts, up on the rocky ridge of the iconic Lion Rock mountain, and alongside the rumble of trams, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong protesters joined hands today.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2019
• Osadebe grew up in Festac Town, the federal housing estate in Lagos that was designed in 1977 to house the festival's participants.
  — Natalie Kainz, CNN, 10 Aug. 2022
• Documentary by Chad Freidrichs explores the development and failure of a 1950s housing estate in St. Louis.
  — Mark Rapp, cleveland.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• Malls Mire—a small woodland in Glasgow, between a housing estate, supermarket, and factory—is an unlikely haven for wildlife.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2021
• During their furlough, some are paired with enforcement officers and stationed on public housing estates.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2020
• These elections, mostly concerned with rubbish collection and the management of public housing estates, have never previously been a big deal.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
• Their new book Eastern Blocks features 100 images of modernist housing estates and other unusual Soviet-era structures.
  — Laura Mallonee, WIRED, 6 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024