Sentence examples for abode a from inspiring English sources

No Fixed Abode A family man wakes up homeless.

A man made of print exits his abode, a copy of "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," and wanders the day away through a — literally — literary town.

His new abode, a wood-floored hut without electricity warmed by a small portable heater, is a whirlwind of shoes, blankets and crying children.

In failing light my wife and I reached our abode, a large if rather dingy house hidden behind a wall on the main street of our provincial town.

After a falling out with the partner who did the actual work, he bought the Abode, a modest 12-unit apartment-hotel for Arizona snowbirds, where he installed solar hot-water heaters.

Her place evinces a kind of frumpy minimalism that is rather appealing, with all the quaint details of a Village abode: a bedroom fireplace, a creaky wooden staircase, an adorable little garden.

With Mr. Comito well-ensconced in his abode, an 1860's farmhouse about a half-mile up the road from the main house, the Parks Department assessed the situation.

By Mike Cannell The New Yorker, August 14 , 1989P. 25 Talk Story about John -Ed Croft, a painter & prolific architect of cockeyed schemes, who opened the Chocolate Milk Art Gallery in his current abode, an East Village building occupied by squatters.

The New Yorker, August 14 , 1989P. 25 Talk Story about John -Ed Croft, a painter & prolific architect of cockeyed schemes, who opened the Chocolate Milk Art Gallery in his current abode, an East Village building occupied by squatters.

Fewer than 500 people without an abode in a population of 61 million seems almost negligible.

Adenor and I walked up a quiet lane and knocked on the door of a humble abode bearing a white flag.