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semi-detached house

n. a dwelling that is attached to something on only one side

Usage examples of "semi-detached house".

He had almost owned a featureless semi-detached house in the leafier suburbs of South London.

Home was his modest three bedroom semi-detached house on a council estate in Northwich.

It was early morning when Sabat rang the doorbell of Miranda's small, semi-detached house.

Only Mrs Scott, now back in her semi-detached house in Burnley, grieved ever for her daughter and could not be comforted, her eyes once more brimming with tears as she struggled to understand what could have happened and -most bitter thought of all - how she herself could surely have helped if only she had known.

By the late 1980s, according to Bingham, you could buy a large, once-proud seafront hotel like the five-storey Grosvenor for the same price as a semi-detached house in London.

However, Mrs Long had been found dead from a head wound in the sitting-room of their semi-detached house in Rickmansworth, and I felt her husband was called upon to provide some sort of an explanation.

They lived in Hendon, Middlesex, in a semi-detached house which Karl's father, who had never been out of work in his life, had begun to buy just before the war.

It was evening when I pulled up in front of a plain semi-detached house in a street that contained forty or fifty just like it.