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Example sentences for "residential"

Lexicographically close words:
residence; residences; residencia; residencias; resident; residentiary; residents; resides; resideth; residing
  1. In fact the town was named Shopton though of late there had been an effort to change the name of the strictly residential section, which lay over the hill toward the river.

  2. The explosion had blown down part of the blazing factory nearest the residential section, and the flames had less to feed on.

  3. They appear, however, to have helped prevent fires from spreading farther east into the main business and residential section of Nagasaki.

  4. There was no marked separation of commercial, industrial, and residential zones.

  5. Had the bomb been dropped farther south, the Mitsubishi-Urakami Ordnance Works would not have been so severely damaged, but the main business and residential districts of Nagasaki would have sustained much greater damage casualties.

  6. The main commercial and residential area of the city lies on a small plain near the end of the bay.

  7. There is the suburban corps, with its settled residential population.

  8. Then, rested and refreshed, they picked their way into the residential section where they knew the officers of the invading forces had settled themselves.

  9. Although the earthquake wrecked the business and residential portions of the city alike, on the hills the land did not sink.

  10. In the streets of the residential district in the western addition, which the fire did not reach, women of the houses were cooking meals on the pavement.

  11. The cooking was all done on a dozen bricks for a stove, with such utensils as may usually be picked up in the ordinary residential alley.

  12. Its residential portions are characterized by detached homes set in ample and beautiful grounds.

  13. This is one of the villages which has become the centre of a residential district, and is frequented by holiday-makers from London, owing to its proximity to the pleasant woodland scenery of Epping Forest.

  14. The city is laid out fairly regularly in the river valley and on bluffs along the river, and has attractive residential districts, commanding good views.

  15. Attached to the university are four residential colleges at which the number of students average two thousand.

  16. A foundation, which was quasi-collegiate, but which may be considered as the precursor of the non-residential grammar schools which subsequently became common, dates from 1384.

  17. Higher institutions of learning are demanded, the building of museums and theatres, the laying out of fine residential districts and parks, with appropriate illumination, pavement, etc.

  18. It will then be possible to carry out hygienic measures easily, which to-day can be carried out only at a great expense and insufficiently, and often only in the residential quarters of the wealthy classes.

  19. Its healthy climate, its position in the sandy heath-district of the west of Surrey, and its proximity to Aldershot Camp have contributed to its growth as a residential township.

  20. Bagshot, another village growing into a residential town, on the heath of the same name extending into Berkshire.

  21. In 1960 there were only three cabins left standing on what was formerly Bachelor's residential street and a few remnants of the boardwalk on its main street.

  22. It was largely residential with a number of saloons, a pool hall and a fine school house.

  23. Kingston, like American City, was purely a mining, milling and residential town and depended on Apex for commerce, merchandise and a newspaper.

  24. Many people from the residential part of the city, and many visitors at the hotels, went there as a part of slumming trips, but the real sentiment was expressed by the young girl when she sang out "Is everybody happy?

  25. San Franciscans, both residential and transient, are a pleasure-loving people, and dining out is a distinctive feature of their pleasure.

  26. Destroyed by revolutionaries, its chapel and storage areas are roofless, but the residential rooms have been reconditioned.

  27. In this county lie half a dozen of the metropolitan boroughs, to which may be tacked on Croydon, Richmond, and Kingston, and many a village promoted to be a "choice residential suburb.

  28. Worcester Park recalls how this outlying residential suburb also made part of a royal demesne, the neighbourhood of which fostered Epsom in Tudor and Stuart days.

  29. It is an attractive residential city, has a park of 650 acres and a fine public library, and is the seat of West Jersey academy and of Ivy Hall, a school for girls.

  30. East of the town is a large park and botanical gardens, beyond which is a residential suburb.

  31. Buffalo is widely known for the beauty of its residential sections, the houses being for the most part detached, set well back from the street, and surrounded by attractive lawns.

  32. In the vicinity of Bromley, Bickley is a similar residential township, Hayes Common is a favourite place of excursion, and at Holwood Hill near Keston are remains of a large encampment known as Caesar's Camp.

  33. It lies on high ground north of the small river Ravensbourne, in a well-wooded district, and has become a favourite residential locality for those whose business lies in London.

  34. Mr. Prohack's route home lay through a big residential square or so and along residential streets of the first quality.

  35. The material, quarried generally in Connecticut, was in such extensive use that it gave a distinctive coloring to New York, its sombreness and uniformity of architecture making most of the residential streets corridors of gloom.

  36. Charnsworth Baldwin had built a large brick mansion, in the Tudor style, on a bluff overlooking the Fox River, in the best residential section of Chippewa.

  37. Just past the Burke House, where the residential district began, and where the trees cast their kindly shadows: "Can I see you home?

  38. Industrially, the town cannot hope for much, unless it should ever become a naval base; but as a residential district it is very delightful, combining the charms of sea and noble river.

  39. Charlestown may claim to be the port of St. Austell, and is becoming also a popular residential suburb.

  40. The taxi stopped at the glass porch of the large, red-brick building with the many casement-windows, out of which some enterprising committee had formed the Ladies' Residential Club.

  41. Taxi all the way home to the Ladies' Residential Club in Hampstead where she lived?

  42. This was a young woman at the Residential Club, where Gwenna lived; not one of these from the office.

  43. The church, under the leadership of Doctor Goadby, with a membership of 160, decided to build a house of worship in a more residential and convenient location than St. Helen Street was.

  44. After the Great Fire of London swept away so much of the ancient residential portion of the old city, and took with it the Gothic and early mediaeval churches, there was a great revival in building operations.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "residential" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.