stucco

Example Sentences

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At the heart of the compound is the original four-bedroom Spanish Revival mansion, defined by white stucco walls, hand-painted ceilings, and romantic courtyards.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026

The city of 600,000, with its white stucco buildings and palm-lined streets, looked something like a war zone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

My family first lived in a gold-colored, stucco ranch house with a black roof in a middle-class section of Woodland Hills.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

In his obituary for Gehry, Christopher Hawthorne described the studio as a “spare, even self-effacing stucco box, plain outside and filled with light and surprising spatial complexity inside.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

Unlike the stucco row house I’d lived in in London, this house, fully detached, was covered with wooden shingles, with a tangle of forsythia bushes plastered against the front and sides.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri