house arrest
Example Sentences
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The problem is, most houses aren't wired to handle the load from electric heating, cooking, and clothes dryers, along with solar panels and vehicle chargers.
From Salon • Jan. 11, 2023
Even those whose houses aren’t on the proposed chopping block noted their homes were within the “limit of disturbance,” whatever that meant.
From Washington Post • May 1, 2019
New dramas that can fill Broadway’s grand proscenium houses aren’t rolling off the assembly line.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2018
Five months after convening in Olympia, budget writers from both houses aren’t even negotiating.
From Seattle Times • May 19, 2017
Suppose all of these houses aren’t real at all, this bed not real, but only figments of my own imagination, given substance by telepathy and hypnosis through the Martians, thought Captain John Black.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
