RESIDENCE in a Sentence

Learn RESIDENCE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
202 example sentences for RESIDENCE, such as:
1. Your agents had no clue to your residence.
2. They have a summer residence in the south.
3. Students must remain in residence during term.
4. Certainly, sir, I have no idea but of residence.
5. Jeff has permanent residence in Canada, but as a U.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of RESIDENCE
residence
 n.  the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president)
 n.  a large and imposing house
Classic Sentence: (139 in 10 pages)
1  It was about this time that the pigs suddenly moved into the farmhouse and took up their residence there.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
2  Albert Malvoisin was overwhelmed with confusion; for the unfortunate Rebecca had been confined in a remote and secret part of the building, and every precaution used to prevent her residence there from being known.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  I am conscious of being far better reconciled to a country residence than I had ever expected to be.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
4  You talk of giving it the air of a gentleman's residence.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  The air of a gentleman's residence, therefore, you cannot but give it, if you do anything.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  From being the mere gentleman's residence, it becomes, by judicious improvement, the residence of a man of education, taste, modern manners, good connexions.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  Certainly, sir, I have no idea but of residence.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
8  A residence of eight or nine years in the abode of wealth and plenty had a little disordered her powers of comparing and judging.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
9  Sir Thomas would not hear of it; and Mrs. Norris's anger against Fanny was so much the greater, from considering her residence there as the motive.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
10  He dismissed him within some quarter of a mile of Mr. Sikes's residence, and performed the short remainder of the distance, on foot.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  Your agents had no clue to your residence.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
12  They must have powerful motives for a secret residence, or be reduced to a destitute condition indeed, who seek a refuge in Jacob's Island.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
13  One of the least agreeable circumstances of her residence there was her being treated with too much confidence by all parties, and being too much in the secret of the complaints of each house.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
14  He was in orders; and having a curacy in the neighbourhood, where residence was not required, lived at his father's house, only two miles from Uppercross.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
15  A mart extensive enough for the purpose existed at Anglebury, some miles beyond the spot chosen for his residence, and there he resolved to pass the coming night.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
Example Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  The estate agent described the flat as a bijou residence.
2  The house was terribly small and cramped, but the agent described it as a bijou residence.
3  They have moved to a more spacious residence on a hill top.
4  The council was hoping to turn a children's home into a residence for adolescent girls.
5  Jeff has permanent residence in Canada, but is still a US citizen.
6  Jeff has permanent residence in Canada, but as a U.
7  Illegal immigrants can regularize their position by obtaining the necessary residence permit.
8  Students must remain in residence during term.
9  They have a summer residence in the south.
10  You have to have proof of residence in the state of Texas, such as a Texas ID card.
11  Rules can differ depending whether the purchase is a residence or an investment.
12  Crowds of fans gathered outside the Bachchan residence in suburban Mumbai as news of the engagement spread.
13  I want to insure my residence, or any accident may ruin the life of family.
14  Two boxes of stereo equipment were stolen from a residence.
15  Although his legal domicile was in New York City, his work kept him away from his residence for many years.