How to Use warren in a Sentence

warren

noun
  • Over the next few months, the battle would rage block by block in the warrens of the Old City.
    Alice Martins, Smithsonian, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The second and third floors house a warren of apartments.
    Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The bridal shop is tucked far in the back of store on an upper floor, past a warren of tiny boutiques.
    Kate Stone Lombardi, Good Housekeeping, 25 June 2020
  • In telling their tales, the authors plunge down a warren-full of rabbit holes.
    Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The sheer size of the Harris — a multilevel warren — worked against him.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The warren of galleries is down a stairwell in a 7,000-square-foot basement.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Police brought dogs to pick up the trail but the boys had vanished into the warren of streets and backyards.
    Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 23 July 2017
  • Jump into a hole, down to a cozy warren, deep below the surface.
    David G. Allan, CNN, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Fisher sought out these distillers, searching through a warren of dim houses on the edge of the city.
    Ben Okri, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The old town is a warren of ancient temples, houses and stores built around a number of canals.
    Chris Dwyer, CNN, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The warren of little rooms and low ceilings inside is gone.
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • There is freedom and fun in this concrete warren of bars, restaurants, and night clubs.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Even so, France was daunted by her new home, with its warren of petite rooms.
    ELLE Decor, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The basement contains a warren of rooms once used by servants.
    Candace Taylor, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The heart of old Kabul was a warren of houses and markets along the Kabul River.
    Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
  • CrimeReads In quaint Ojai, about 25 minutes north of the city of Ventura, a maze-like warren of book shelves unspools.
    Julia Wick, latimes.com, 22 June 2019
  • In order to hold the city of 3 million, Russian forces will have to advance through a warren of narrow streets.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The route threads through what has been a notorious warren of homeless camps along the Chester Creek greenbelt.
    Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2019
  • Reagan now waves from a spot near the park’s warren of oversize concrete bunnies.
    Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Reagan now waves from a spot near the park’s warren of oversized concrete bunnies.
    Hillary Davis, latimes.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • On Thursday night, the event transformed the pier with elaborate, flashing light displays and a warren of rooms and nooks.
    Emily Holt, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The warren-like corridors of one floor were devoted to hats.
    Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The lawmakers and others were rushed out of the chamber and down a warren of staircases and hallways.
    Mary Clare Jalonick, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Its first headquarters was a warren of offices and studios not far from the River Thames.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The two notes, E and F, sounded from a warren of bass strings and brass, like a reverberating heartbeat.
    Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 26 July 2017
  • He was born and raised there, amid a warren of houses cobbled together from brick, concrete, and tin.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • One wing of the museum had been taken over by the Ministry of Finance, which turned it into a warren of offices.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The warren of art galleries and restaurants of Bear Skin Neck was barren early morning, except for swarms of plows.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2022
  • In 1987, a fire consumed an old house on Grosvenor Avenue that like many in Lexington had been carved into a warren of student apartments.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2024
  • Inside, a warren of offices gives way to a series of parlorlike spaces with high ceilings.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024

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