Example sentences for: cottages

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

  • Even after the first serious colonization of the 18th century, the forests of the interior were exploited just for building fishermen’s cottages and their ships.

  • Were the faux-neighborliness and picture-perfectness a hint that he considers the planned community, with its gingerbread cottages and white-picket fences and Yale-trained architects and grand terminology ("The New Urbanism") and grander utopian ideals, a Potemkin Village?

  • The 17-Mile Drive is a lovely scenic toll road starting at Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove, a pleasant waterside town of Victorian houses and clapboard cottages a few miles beyond Monterey.

  • Today the area is still replete with Greek and Roman remains, though these are interspersed with later buildings — a fascinating mixture of Neo-Classical mansions and terraced cottages dating back to Ottoman times.

  • The pretty gabled buildings which line the main street were once cottages for fisherfolk and the small port still plays host to a fleet of ships.


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