brownstone - use in sentences

Adjective modifier

  • stately: You can expect with a real of stately brownstones.

Modifies a noun

  • house: Mary Sue and the children joined him from London and they all moved into the brownstone house on 19th Street.
  • building: The brothers meet in the attic room of a great Manhattan brownstone building, once the family home, shortly to be demolished.
  • apartment: He solves crimes from his 1940's New York brownstone apartment with his wisecracking right-hand man, Archie Goodwin, doing the legwork.
  • bar: But if you can find a dark brownstone bar In the mid afternoon, things are likely to be ok.

Noun used with modifier

  • four-story: The film opens with Meg Altman ( Jodie Foster ) and her teenage daughter viewing a magnificent four-story brownstone in the heart of Manhattan.

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