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How to use adobe in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Adobe means an unburnt brick dried in the sun. Example: “Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.”

Examples of adobe by meaning

nounAn unburnt brick dried in the sun.

  • Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
  • “Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”1903, O’Henry, Roads of Destiny
  • Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses.1904 November, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Cabbages and Kings, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 24

More sentences with adobe

  • Sun-dried adobe bricks were used as the primary building material by the Gallinazo.2020, Bethany L. Turner, Haagen D. Klaus, Diet, Nutrition, and Foodways on the North Coast of Peru, page 55. From the entry Gallinazo
  • Glass windows replaced the old tiny windows of selenite (crystallized gypsum), and stovepipe replaced adobe chimneys.1994, Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 146. From the entry selenite
  • In the whole city there were only one-story adobe or brick houses.1973, Marjorie Rankin Steurt, Broken Bits of Old China, New York: Thomas Nelson Incorporated, page 94. From the entry Tsining
  • Pulques Finos, it said in faded blue letters on the oyster-white adobe wall: La Sepultura.1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 109. From the entry pulqueria
  • The cantina was a flatroofed adobe, painfully white in the unrelenting sun, with a brush roof and splintery batwings.2005 April 5, Ralph Compton, Peter Brandvold, Ralph Compton Navarro, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry batwing
  • Though the Santa Fe pink-and-green interior and faux adobe may cause you to shake your head, the food gets a nod.1995, Stuart Warren, Oregon Handbook, page 385. From the entry Santa Fe pink
  • However, with adobe brick, slumpstone, or rubble walls, heavier framing will give a better appearance for the roof structure.1967, Paul Corey, Holiday Homes, page 106. From the entry slumpstone
  • Las Vegas—“The Meadows” in Spanish—was a hodgepodge of adobe houses, set among rustling cornfields irrigated by a muddy acequia that seeped from the Gallinas River.2006, Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder, Abacus, published 2014, page 3. From the entry acequia
  • They rode out through the north end of the town and they halted before an adobe building with a corrugated tin roof and an empty mud bellcot above it.1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 161. From the entry bellcot
  • We piled into Manchester's car, leaving mine at the gallery, and crossed town, striking off the main road and into a warren of dirt roads and adobe.1984, Brett : from Bloomsbury to New Mexico, page 265. From the entry warren
  • Even though some participants think adobe houses are more beautiful and safe than bahareque constructions, others have chosen bricks and cement as alternatives to reinforce or extend their basic constructions.2015, Claudia Nieto-Sanchez et al., “Positive deviance study to inform a Chagas disease control program in southern Ecuador”, in Memórias…. From the entry bahareque

Meaning of adobe

  1. noun An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
  2. noun The earth from which such bricks are made.
  3. noun A house made of adobe brick.

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Questions about adobe in a sentence

How do you use adobe in a sentence?
Adobe is used as a noun. For example: “Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.”
What is a short sentence with adobe?
“Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.”
What does adobe mean?
Adobe means an unburnt brick dried in the sun.

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