summerhouse

Example Sentences

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She wore Poiret gowns, opened galleries, lent Djuna Barnes the summerhouse where she wrote “Nightwood.”

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2019

Famously, Thomas Mann, the Nobel prize-winning German author of The Magic Mountain, had a summerhouse here where he’d holiday with his family in the early 1930s.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2018

“When I first got married, my wife wanted a summerhouse and I wanted a Swan—I bought the Swan first,” says Ferragamo, who visits the yard every two or three months.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 3, 2015

Mr Budd's summerhouse roof had been blown four houses down the street and landed in Trev Harris's garden after striking his conservatory and roof.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2015

I was making my way up to the summerhouse for the purpose of clearing away the remains of his lordship's taking tea there with some guests a little while earlier.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro