How to Use ranch house in a Sentence

ranch house

noun
  • In the first episode, Chelsea and Cole fix up a ranch house.
    Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2023
  • For my husband, Scott, and me, that house took the form of a 1950s-era brick ranch house.
    Parker Bowie Larson, ELLE Decor, 12 May 2023
  • The single-story ranch house was set back from the road.
    AZCentral.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • In the 1950s, the ubiquitous ranch house had a long roof that straddled a garage.
    oregonlive, 17 Oct. 2019
  • In one case, the rancher said the burglars ransacked the kitchen of an old ranch house in search of food.
    Matt Leach, Fox News, 22 July 2021
  • Dan lives in a forest-green ranch house close to downtown Forks.
    Lauren Smiley, Wired, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Among them is this three-bed, two-and-a-half-bath breezy ranch house that stretches out over 2,800 square feet.
    Liz Stinson, Curbed, 17 Aug. 2018
  • The couple, who share a ranch house in Santa Ynez, are deeply bonded.
    Amy Kaufman, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
  • In the 1970s a ranch house in Malibu was transformed into a live-in studio known as Shangri-La.
    The Economist, 15 June 2020
  • By the time Paige and John got the keys to their single-story brick ranch house, the yard hadn’t been mown for several weeks.
    Marni Jameson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 July 2018
  • The Spanish-style four-bedroom, 4,230-square-foot ranch house has a pool and spa out back along with a tennis court.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 15 July 2019
  • My sister, Carla, and I returned a few years ago to see what had become of the small ranch house.
    baltimoresun.com, 22 Apr. 2021
  • For the last several years, Nash had rarely left his white-stone ranch house in Studio City.
    Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
  • With the settlement money, Wood and Herzberg’s husband bought a ranch house in Mesa.
    Lauren Smiley, Wired, 8 Mar. 2022
  • His ranch house designs took the country by storm after World War II.
    Regina Cole, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • At the center sits a stucco ranch house with three bedrooms and three bathrooms in 3,000 square feet.
    Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2020
  • The answer is a modest, red-brick ranch house in the quiet Nashville suburb of Goodlettsville.
    Marisa Spyker, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Tucked-away treehouse This log/board-and-batten walkout ranch house sits on 1.66 acres in Prospect.
    Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 11 May 2023
  • Every shack, trailer, ranch house and split foyer mortgaged till the end of time.
    Nathan Hill, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The finished part of the lower level is as big as a typical ranch house — 3,111 square feet.
    Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Then, in 1991, the seller bought the ranch house and set out to expand it and make it into a two-story, Lannon stone and cedar home.
    Jade Yan, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Originally, the home was built in the 1960s as a single-story ranch house.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Much of the property around the house was purchased and developed in the early 2000s — but the ranch house remained.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Over time, the lawn in front of the ranch house Mendoza was living in began to grow too high, and agents didn’t want to draw attention.
    Beth Warren, courier-journal.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • May, considered by historians as the father of the ranch house, built the low-slung dwelling on spec in the mid-1930s, across the street from his own home.
    Marni Elyse Katz, House Beautiful, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Vazquez was interviewed at the ranch house, where women sleep on bunk beds and hang their clothes on a line outside.
    Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2019
  • But after nearly a decade, Paul and Jodie finally took the leap to their 1960s ranch house and turned it into their dream home.
    Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Not only is the ranch house evocative of the house in 1977's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but there are alien trinkets on sale at the ranch's souvenir kiosk.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Sitting atop a bluff, the one-story ranch house offers ocean views from most of the rooms, and a large brick patio looks out onto the coastline.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 18 May 2022
  • Two barns and a few ranch houses stood in the distance, and beyond, beef cows wandered the gentle green slopes beneath blue sky.
    Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2023

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