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Example sentences for "house like"

  • What can he want with a house like that, the selfish, horrid creature?

  • There is a good deal of machinery of one sort and another involved in the work of a house like this, but I fear it is hardly the kind which he is accustomed to superintend.

  • Nothing tries me more than to have my plans upset, and it is constantly happening in a house like this, where there are so many others to consider.

  • He would gain credit by living in a house like that--with such individual features, yet perfectly well-arranged.

  • You come into my house like thieves in the night,' he said, 'and give me the lie, do you?

  • Do you really imagine, Diantha, that Mrs. O'Shaughnessy or Mrs. Yon Yonson can manage a house like this as you can?

  • This young woman cannot be competent to manage a house like this--to say nothing of her scandalous ideas.

  • I'd like to know what a woman of your age can do with a house like this--and no money?

  • But surely one doesn't live in a house like that!

  • I want a house like Mr. Dwyer's," he declared, pointing at the distant imposing roof line against the fading eastern sky.

  • But as to gettin' him a house like this--kind of royal, ain't it?

  • And you mustn't come back to a house like this.

  • My dear Mrs. Tracy, you can never stand it in a house like this, and Mr. Arthur would not like it if he knew.

  • You must have known very well that I should object to your going to a house like Brummels.

  • Nina," he said, "I'm infernally worried about Joan going to a house like Brummels.

  • What on earth possessed Humphrey and Susan to take you off to a house like that, without a with-your-leave or a by-your-leave?

  • Lois will never be in a house like that," responded the old lady contentedly.

  • Imagine such a girl set to preside over his house--a house like this, for instance.

  • Now, mother, how would you like to have Lois in a house like that?

  • Perhaps it would not be a house like this.

  • Not even if I were to offer you a house like Mr. Dwyer's?

  • Of course, when one lived in a house like this, one could afford to dress and act as one liked.

  • He satisfied Marion Armstrong too, which was another thing to be considered, for Marion and her mother were the sort of boarders who are always more or less the backbone of a house like ours.

  • You must have met him before, you know; he would not come to a house like this if he was not interested in you and your mother.

  • She would not know what to do with it, nor where to accommodate her new inmate so as to keep him from meddling with affairs he had no right to meddle with: it was easy enough to fancy him troublesome in a house like hers.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "house like" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolute power; expressed their; holy priesthood; house again; house are many mansions; house books; house close; house full; house girl; house like; house match; house officer; house party; house plant; house unto; house was; household furniture; houses were; human consciousness; local colour; mind over; molten state; poor whites; should arrive; sustain them; thought struck