Example sentences for: brownstone

How can you use “brownstone” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The monumental Victorian houses of Nob Hill — home of the “nobs,” possibly a derivation of “nabobs” — burned down in the 1906 earthquake, and only the imposing brownstone house of James Flood, now the very exclusive Pacific Union Club, survived.

  • The movie starts with Pierce and his occasional partner, Larry (John Goodman), trudging to the top floor of a Hell's Kitchen brownstone, where a man named Burke has been in cardiac arrest for 10 minutes.

  • polymath Does not describe my brownstone partner, who is in fact a Ph.D. in mathematics and who does indeed seem, at least to this philosophy major, to know many kinds of arithmetic.


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