outbuilding

Example Sentences

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The shop, a small outbuilding adjacent to a used car lot, now sat empty; its fading sign still stood roadside.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

Still wearing his black-tie outfit and flanked by Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth, Trump told reporters that the attempt only strengthened his resolve to finish the White House outbuilding.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

The Wiltshire Council signed off on his plans to build an ornamental outbuilding, a three-story extension, the lake and a driveway that curves around it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

The 500-square-foot outbuilding wasn’t where Stringer, an L.A.-based ceramicist, imagined setting up shop.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025

And so for almost half a stupid year, all the boys were gathered up by sad-faced Mr. Royal and plonked out here in an outbuilding away from the main Noise of the town.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness