country house
Example Sentences
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The long, digressive rural idyll “NN” follows a sophisticated city dweller’s return to the village of his childhood country house.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
It is set in a country house, like many earlier mysteries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
A car entourage was ready to greet the president and take him to the prime minister's country house.
From BBC • Sep. 18, 2025
"It was this huge private house and it was decorated in an English country house style. I don't think I'd ever seen anything like it in my life," says Frances.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2025
Inside, the rooms were almost empty—a large, once elegant country house stripped of all but a few mats, an altar in one comer of the first room, a funeral urn.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
