Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: housed
IPA transcription: [h'aʊzd]
Usage examples
  • They reached Victoria in September of '62 and were housed in the barracks.
  • A glimpse of the river through a dull gateway, where some waggons were housed for the night, seemed to arrest my feet.
  • The family thus housed and sheltered, one more bit of filial work remained for Abraham before assuming his virile independence.
  • Multiply that shoreline by the vast area which had housed the Gens of Dalis, and the mental picture is almost too big to grasp.
  • In those two days of really terrible weather our thoughts often turned to absentees at Cape Crozier with the devout hope that they may be safely housed.
  • "My men have reason to believe that it is gathered; and, anyway, they view with mistrust that it should all be housed aboard your ships, and remain in your possession.
  • The compass was well housed in a case perfectly square, and well balanced by its two copper frames placed horizontally, one in the other, on little bolts, as in Cardan's lamps.
  • In a Samoan village a certain stone was carefully housed as the representative of the rain-making god, and in time of drought his priests carried the stone in procession and dipped it in a stream.
  • A rough low cabin of logs, hastily thrown together, housed through the winter months of the Sierra foothills the two men who now, in the warm days of early June, sat by the primitive fireplace cooking a midday meal.
  • He delayed burning the brush-heap from the spring pruning, back of the orchard, until fall, when he found it housed a pair of fine thrushes; for the song of the thrush delighted him almost as much as that of the lark.