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roundhouse

[raund-haus] / ˈraʊndˌhaʊs /




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My roundhouse kicks were decent, but I couldn’t do a somersault without wanting to vomit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

McGregor's knee appeared to give way when he missed with his first attempted roundhouse kick in the opening seconds.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

He left the Air Force in 1962 and set up a martial arts studio in Los Angeles, finding his calling in teaching and delivering roundhouse kicks.

From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026

Encircling the footprint of each roundhouse were "middens," haloes of rubbish dumped from the stilt village above, included broken pots, butchered animal bone, and "coprolites" or fossilised faeces.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024

To me, with my roundhouse, saloon-door, and river-levee background, they were revolutionary, my gateway to the world.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

If an internal fire took hold in one of the roundhouses, it would spread between the tightknit structures within minutes.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024

The inhabitants lived in a clutch of thatched roundhouses built on wooden stilts above a channel of the River Nene, which empties into the North Sea.

From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2024

Archaeologists said it was an Iron Age village, formed of over 30 roundhouses, believed to have been established in about 400 BC, that developed into a wealthy Roman trading town.

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2022

These fortified roundhouses, made with with dry stone walls, were built in the period from 100 BC to 100 AD, and it’s thought Dun Carloway probably sprang up in the 1st century AD.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2017

The yard facilities, shops, and roundhouses are the last word in modern railroad construction, and the division has not infrequently held the medal for safety records.

From Nan of Music Mountain by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth


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