A semidetached house. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
And the five years of her life as an independent, kind of semidetached member of the royal family, I think are fascinating. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2004] Reference
Now his steps slowed as the rows of brown-brick semidetached houses came to an end. From Wordnik.com. [Dreaming of the Bones] Reference
The city is a coalition of semidetached groups, each of which has a unity of its own. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
The tenements had been demolished and were being replaced with neat semidetached houses. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloomsday Dead] Reference
I'm staying up the road in one of several semidetached row houses that take the spillover. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Pilgrimages: George Orwell] Reference
This would take them into a heavily populated neighbourhood of terraced and semidetached houses. From Wordnik.com. [A Traitor to Memory]
The result was that she had become semidetached from the Watkins Agency, working part time at home. From Wordnik.com. [Storyteller] Reference
It was built by a property developer intent on maximising the number of semidetached houses he could get near to. From Wordnik.com. [22 « September « 2008 « Stephen Rees’s blog] Reference
Built in solid stone, the occasional mansion and the semidetached houses and rows of terraces hid large back gardens. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Death in the Great Glen] Reference
By this year, he was back in Luton, living with his wife and three young children in a semidetached house on a quiet street. From Wordnik.com. [Stockholm Bomber Seen As Radical By His Own Mosque] Reference
The village had none of the charm of Grantchester but seemed rather a suburban enclave, with its quiet clusters of semidetached houses. From Wordnik.com. [Dreaming of the Bones] Reference
The suburb boasted comfortable semidetached houses and well-tended gardens, with an occasional garden gnome peeking tastefully from behind a hedge. From Wordnik.com. [Leave the Grave Green] Reference
THE HOUSE IN Chepstow Villas was semidetached, a white stucco Georgian house, as estate agents would have described it, of three floors and a basement. From Wordnik.com. [Portobello] Reference
I am sorry! as he held up one inadequate, and now semidetached, strip of satin and Sophie clapped one hand to her exposed shoulder with a nervous giggle. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady Agency and the Prince] Reference
By 1967 my parents have saved enough money to move the family to a semidetached house near the coast in Tynemouth, only a few miles downriver from Wallsend. From Wordnik.com. [Broken Music, A Memoir]
They moved with me and my brothers -- Charles, then eleven, and Tony, eight -- to a two-bedroom semidetached house in a small seaside village called Hoylake. From Wordnik.com. [John]
But a few short moments later Gemma glimpsed a straggle of cottages facing the road, then a few semidetached villas, and she knew they were coming into Grantchester. From Wordnik.com. [Dreaming of the Bones] Reference
A suburban semidetached house in Gerrards Cross, which may have cost about £1,250 when it was first sold in the 1930s, would now cost between £500,000 and £1 million. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Bill Irwin is the sisters 'rigid, earnest father; Debra Winger is their scary, semidetached mother; and the groom, Sidney, is played by the actor and musician Tunde Adebimpe. From Wordnik.com. ['Playlist' Is Vital, Funny Quest for a Band and Love] Reference
A door to door sales rep knocks on the door of an ordinary semidetached house. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
As a physical structure, Matthew House is an old, semidetached building that has seen better days. From Wordnik.com. [HeraldTimesOnline.com] Reference
Because we wanted to start small, with maybe a condominium or semidetached home, with 1-2 bedrooms. From Wordnik.com. [BiggerPockets Forums] Reference
They have just sold their home in Kent and bought a three-bedroom semidetached house in Bournemouth. From Wordnik.com. [This is Money | Home]
These we found located upon the second floor of the palace in a semidetached tower at the rear of the edifice. From Wordnik.com. [The Warlord of Mars] Reference
It is unnatural for the artist to live in a semidetached villa and eat cottage pie cooked by a maid of all work. From Wordnik.com. [The Summing Up]
They dwell in cottages and semidetached villas, with bits of flower garden, and elbow room, and breathing space. From Wordnik.com. [My Lodging and Some Others] Reference
And I assume your posting from some mud hut in the desert … or your nice comfortable semidetached condo in the burbs. From Wordnik.com. [WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook] Reference
So is he now a semidetached member of the team whose ideas are no longer needed in these more austere, hard-edged times?. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
During the boom, he remained in the semidetached brick home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where he raised his family, he said. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
It was while he was still in this half-somnolent, semidetached frame of mind that he rode into a sudden white-hot whirl of events. From Wordnik.com. [The Net] Reference
Daylesford features a range of two, three and four bedroom terraced and semidetached homes, with only a handful still remaining for sale. From Wordnik.com. [The Sunday Mail - Home] Reference
"It's fun," Phyllis went on, "leading this semidetached life, with no responsibilities whatever. From Wordnik.com. [The Wishing-Ring Man] Reference
"Because there are two semidetached in River Street, just finished, that look very pretty and roomy. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
If you ask me, we’re much more likely to draw attention to ourselves living in a semidetached house. From Wordnik.com. [Notes from A Totally Lame Vampire] Reference
"Oh," said Amroth with a sneer, "I have no doubt you can find some very nice semidetached villas hereabouts. From Wordnik.com. [The Child of the Dawn] Reference
Ilse’s parents live in Hendon, in a semidetached villa with a green roof and plaster dwarfs fishing in the garden pond. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
You might not have noticed just yet, my dear, but the Towers isn't exactly a semidetached on the outskirts of Wimbledon. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Possessed]
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