outbuilding

Example Sentences

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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

Another fire at an outbuilding close to the property was also extinguished.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2025

She also guides us to small two-storey outbuilding, gently announcing: "I wrote Rivals in there. Above a room with all the garden tools. It was very quiet."

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2024

About 30 people were evacuated from the area, and one home and one outbuilding were destroyed, according to the news release.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2024

They would give the strangers whatever weapons or pigs or cattle they’d saved from destruction, and the strangers would give them an outbuilding, the worst of their food, and some straw.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner