adobe
Example Sentences
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County officials signaled interest in rebuilding in fire zones with natural materials, such as adobe, but advocates say their policies make it nearly impossible.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025
Eventually, however, the lush commons became something like adobe hills.
From Salon • Jul. 12, 2025
A wealthy resident, Bernhard Hoffmann, not only bought and restored the historic adobe Casa de la Guerra downtown, Rech said, but bought property next to it and built a complex of shops called El Paseo.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2025
That includes adobe and cob, a material made from clay, sand and straw.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025
Magpies drifted from cottonwoods across the deserted road, and bluebirds and swallows flitted in and out of abandoned adobe farmhouses.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
