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outbuilding

[out-bil-ding] / ˈaʊtˌbɪl dɪŋ /
NOUN
barn
Synonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK




Example Sentences

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A 52-year-old man was found dead in an outbuilding off the A1133 in Langford, near Newark in Nottinghamshire, shortly after 10:15 GMT on Saturday.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025

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

A gun was found near his body in an outbuilding at his parent's home in the Cotswolds.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2024

Thursday and found two mobile homes ablaze and an outbuilding also damaged.

From Washington Times • Nov. 25, 2023

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