adobe

Example Sentences

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Economic forces have fueled an exodus from the aging northern villages made up of crumbling adobe homes.

From New York Times

Mr. Cuen-Buitimea, 48, grew up in an adobe house in the impoverished farming village of Buaysiacobe in the Mexican state of Sonora, according to his relatives and friends there.

From New York Times

Cases are highest in the neighborhood of Icidua on the city outskirts, where most residents live in bamboo or adobe mud huts and fetch water in buckets from communal wells.

From Seattle Times

He added that the houses are also old and built with materials such as adobe, which was once frequently used in Andean communities.

From Seattle Times

Eventually, Jay built himself a squat adobe house a 25-minute drive from Marshall and built a happy life there with his new wife, Julie, her two little girls, and their infant daughter.

From Los Angeles Times