Brownstone

//ˈbɹaʊnˌstoʊn//

"Brownstone" in a Sentence (5 examples)

She lives in a brownstone in a gentrified neighborhood of New York.

He knew that Mr. Welland, who was behaving "very handsomely," already had his eye on a newly built house in East Thirty-ninth Street. The neighbourhood was thought remote, and the house was built in a ghastly greenish-yellow stone that the younger architects were beginning to employ as a protest against the brownstone of which the uniform hue coated New York like a cold chocolate sauce; but the plumbing was perfect.

Lived in a brownstone, lived in the ghetto, I’ve lived all over this town.

Did I mention he lives in a fantastic, expensive-looking brownstone? Did I mention that he’s a published novelist? Did I mention that he’s an involved, attentive father?

They emerge from the car to face a pair of brownstones, stately narrow things, which seem to have been similarly renovated and decorated.

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