How to Use cottage in a Sentence

cottage

noun
  • She owns a cottage at the beach.
  • We rented a cottage for the weekend.
  • The band had rented a cottage on the beach in Ditch Plains.
    — Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Things to do: Spend the night in a Crystal Pier cottage.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • For more about tours and the history of the cottage, see sethpeterson.org.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The child’s mother and Stapf lived in a cottage-style home just a few steps from the water.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • In fact, every room in the hotel and all the cottages are taken.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2023
  • The cottages are first come, first serve, so book well in advance.
    — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Nowhere is this mix more clear than in the cottage’s main living area.
    — House Beautiful, 1 Sep. 2021
  • That could be a beach cottage or a cabin in the mountains.
    — Jack Zenger, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The cottages, which sit atop a large stretch of the pier and are rented out year-round, remained open.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2023
  • Across the yard from the main house is a small cottage that’s about 90 percent windows.
    — Danielle Pergament, Allure, 9 Nov. 2022
  • On that score, a quaint cottage and two-floor annex are close by.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Gifts for the 24 boys in my cottage were piled high around our house Christmas tree.
    — Richard B. McKenzie, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The cottages had grown up so thick their roofs almost touched.
    — Ted Janes, Outdoor Life, 29 May 2025
  • Plus, there’s a one-bedroom guest cottage and a six-car garage.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Can Miles compose movie scores in a small cottage across the Atlantic?
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 20 Nov. 2023
  • And when Rose makes a shocking request of the couple, the tension in the cottage soars.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Their vehicle veers off the road and smashes through the wall of a small cottage.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The cottage remains a private home, though there had been threats to tear it down.
    — Brian Cassella, chicagotribune.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Boxes and posters meant to transform the entire cottage are strewn on the ground.
    — Shantay Robinson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Doze in a river house on the banks of the Atchafalaya or in an 1840s cottage turned bed-and-breakfast on the shores of Lake Martin.
    — Kristy Christiansen, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The cottage is in the village of Fonmon, around 16 miles from Cardiff, the capital of Wales.
    — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
  • By dawn several dozen men regrouped by some cottages on the edge of the city.
    — Oleksandr Chubko Lynsey Addario, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • In back will be a stone cottage, reminding me of the best years of my childhood.
    — Janelle Ash, Fox News, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Most notably, the unit is topped with a Cape Cod-style shingled cottage.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The cottage may be the only structure in Glencoe with Booth’s name on it.
    — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2024
  • My cottage, named Lower MerMansion, sits toward the end of the pier and looks out to the east and west.
    — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 18 May 2025
  • The creek is pounding the foundation of his cottage and seeping inside.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 19 May 2025
  • He was shot dead at his cottage in rural Ireland four months later.
    — Arkansas Online, 31 May 2025

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