How to Use stucco in a Sentence

stucco

noun

• The court was lined with stucco, a kind of plaster, and had traces of paint.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 25 June 2024
• Those events had not stayed within the thick stucco walls of the house.
  — Nell Freudenberger, The New Yorker, 28 July 2024
• Had enough of the heavy brocade and stucco found all around town?
  — Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2021
• The ripples in the stucco walls are as tactile as Braille.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Nov. 2021
• The room had no molding or stucco, its lines as sharp as the lines of his face when the light was dimmed.
  — Jonas Eika, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• Down the hill from the garden, in the center of town, is a white stucco hotel called The White House.
  — Claire Fahy, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
• The residences were built in a Mediterranean style and with stucco to keep the home cool.
  — Rebecca San Juan, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
• Most of the houses were close to each other and looked the same—stucco clad in aluminum.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2021
• The plan also includes a new pool and 630-square-foot stucco pool house.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2022
• The shiny silver blade, cutting through the center of the façade, curled back sheets of gray stucco on both sides.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
• Holes marred the front door, while others littered the white stucco around the front windows.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 13 July 2023
• The stucco and wood structure is on a narrow lot on a winding street.
  — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 9 Nov. 2021
• Gatti-Taylor has repaired the stucco of her home and likes to do house projects.
  — Arlene Becker, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2022
• The house had been covered with vines, which were damaging the stucco.
  — Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
• Inside, echoes of Brazilian jazz bounce off the stucco walls.
  — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• The homes are large, often made of stucco and have parlors, sun rooms and living rooms.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 10 Feb. 2024
• Other sections of the house are clad in Cor-teen steel and hand-troweled stucco.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022
• Plans initially called for it to be sheathed in stucco.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
• The laundry nook now had floorboards that looked warped and the stucco on the ceiling was punctured from the water.
  — Dianne Solis, Dallas News, 5 Mar. 2021
• But here, the stucco walls have clean, crisp corners rather than rounded edges.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• The house is modest for Washington: stucco and brick, cozy and cramped.
  — Washington Post, 27 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
• Dark brown trim highlighted the beige stucco, and a wall of red brick surrounded the garage door.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2022
• Both the main house and the guest house feature a cake batter stucco, a style that isn’t seen as much due to the maintenance that comes with it.
  — Lisa Van Loo, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2020
• The woman’s headscarf, the child’s shirt and the high stucco wall behind them are all in close shades of rose and salmon, set off by the deep green of a window frame.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2021
• The right section, which is the kitchen, is a darker gray stucco for contrast, said Dyjak.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2022
• The top story is covered in stucco, the bottom in brick veneer.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 8 Mar. 2023
• Perched on a ridge, the earth-tone stucco house sits on a nearly three-acre lot with views of the surrounding mountain ranges.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
• Also added were a stucco rail fence along 108th Street to separate the park from the road and trees planted around some of the walkways.
  — Janice Neumann, chicagotribune.com, 18 Aug. 2021
• Many of the building's original walls are covered by the stucco that cloaks the building today.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024