How to Use fourplex in a Sentence

fourplex

noun
  • Sixty-one units will be part of the duplex and fourplex setups.
    — Dylan Dhindsa, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2022
  • The apartment is on the second floor of a fourplex, up a windowless staircase.
    — Marissa Gluck, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • The man allegedly broke into her fourplex last week, made threats and smashed her phone before leaving.
    — Liz Sawyer, Star Tribune, 1 Feb. 2021
  • O’Donnell’s home address is listed at a residence in the same fourplex where he was found.
    — Ian Cummings and Robert A. Cronkleton, kansascity, 12 Feb. 2018
  • If my next-door neighbor can convert her single-family home into a fourplex, that amounts to a lot.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Residents of fourplexes, for example, worked out their own agreement with a hauler to share one bin and one hauler.
    — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 8 June 2019
  • Early this year, the real f-word in San Francisco was fourplex.
    — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 July 2021
  • The neighborhood is a relatively new one and includes some fourplexes built in the last few years.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, kansascity, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Perhaps a single-family dwelling would be more acceptable than a fourplex.
    — Byron Tate, Arkansas Online, 14 Nov. 2020
  • David said homeowners would be more likely to build a triplex or fourplex if the city doesn’t try to control what sort of units are built and who gets to live in them.
    — J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Jennet served as Petersen's liaison for the Marshallese women and lived with them in a Mesa fourplex.
    — Robert Anglen, azcentral, 18 June 2020
  • Jennet served as Petersen's liaison for the Marshallese women and lived with them in the Mesa fourplex.
    — Robert Anglen, azcentral, 7 Nov. 2019
  • In some areas with acreage, like Woodside, the bill also allows for large lots to be split to allow for two duplexes, creating a fourplex.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2022
  • But much of the turmoil is playing out on a smaller scale at rentals like Hill’s two-bedroom apartment in Nguyen’s Mission fourplex.
    — Lauren Hepler, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The man allegedly broke into D'Zondria Wallace's fourplex last week, made threats and smashed her phone before leaving.
    — Liz Sawyer, Star Tribune, 2 Feb. 2021
  • The 1932 red-brick fourplex in Alden Place is still standing, now sharing a street with more modern condos and townhomes.
    — Chris Gray, Houston Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2018
  • In addition to the single-family homes, there will be seven fourplexes and five buildings with between 20 and 30 units.
    — J.k. Dineen, SFChronicle.com, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Hundreds of people now assembled for Blake, a lanky twenty-nine-year-old who had been staying at the fourplex with his fiancée, Laquisha Booker.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
  • HomeAid Houston is leading the search for a builder captain to construct the 3,225-square-foot, one-bedroom fourplex.
    — Houston Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2020
  • And, unless the city streamlined the process of building a fourplex on a single-family lot, builders would run into too many bureaucratic obstacles, Kieghran said.
    — J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2021
  • And local governments must allow fourplexes in single-family neighborhoods in the state’s urban areas.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Fun that will continue as the couple now is renovating a second rental property, a fourplex on nearby Brahan Boulevard.
    — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Feb. 2021
  • Single-family houses, duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes would be exempt.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The American Red Cross’ Minnesota region is helping 10 adults and eight children who were displaced after the fire in the fourplex.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 26 Jan. 2017
  • Another neighbor in the fourplex told officers Perry previously threatened Martinelli with a gun, the complaint said.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2021
  • On the afternoon of Sunday, August 23rd, three police officers tried to arrest a man outside a fourplex in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
  • The legislation would have automatically rezoned areas around transit stops to allow for mid-rise apartment buildings and cleared the way for fourplexes in currently single-family home neighborhoods.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2019
  • Those properties included duplexes, fourplexes and undeveloped lots.
    — Justin Sayers, The Courier-Journal, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Carl and Mitsy Dunlap invested their savings into purchasing a fourplex in Southeast Portland in 2008.
    — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Lautner’s 1947 residential fourplex, formerly known as the Hotel Lautner and now a collection of boutique rentals used for weddings and other events, opens its doors to the public once a year for Modernism Week.
    — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2022

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