Examples of playhouse in a Sentence
they're renovating the old playhouse and adding extra screens
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Gradually, her sense of the hotel as one big playhouse morphed into a fascination with its inner workings and the mysterious qualcosa that keeps a venerable luxe hotel fresh and relevant.
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Lee Marshall, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2024
To honor the playhouse’s namesake, the production designer Tom Scutt commissioned a Black artist, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, to paint murals in the reconfigured lobby, with theatergoers now entering via an alleyway off 52nd Street.
—Douglas Greenwood, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
There is a detached guest house, a pool house with a kitchen, a dance studio/gym (which the listing notes could be turned into a recording or production studio), a children’s playhouse, sauna, three-car garage and kennel.
—Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2024
The playhouse’s distinctive, winged three-story Mediterranean front building would be preserved and restored.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
While that area is designed for quality family time, there’s also a feature on the lower level that was made just for the kids: a custom playhouse that Karista designed herself.
—Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 8 Feb. 2024
Using skills from the camp, students will build playhouses to donate to Habitat for Humanity.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024
The playhouse is about 30 miles from downtown Mystic where the movie was set.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2024
Among the shots from the calming green space was a view down a path leading to daughter True's playhouse.
—Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
Lee Marshall, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2024
To honor the playhouse’s namesake, the production designer Tom Scutt commissioned a Black artist, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, to paint murals in the reconfigured lobby, with theatergoers now entering via an alleyway off 52nd Street.
—Douglas Greenwood, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
There is a detached guest house, a pool house with a kitchen, a dance studio/gym (which the listing notes could be turned into a recording or production studio), a children’s playhouse, sauna, three-car garage and kennel.
—Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2024
The playhouse’s distinctive, winged three-story Mediterranean front building would be preserved and restored.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
While that area is designed for quality family time, there’s also a feature on the lower level that was made just for the kids: a custom playhouse that Karista designed herself.
—Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 8 Feb. 2024
Using skills from the camp, students will build playhouses to donate to Habitat for Humanity.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024
The playhouse is about 30 miles from downtown Mystic where the movie was set.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2024
Among the shots from the calming green space was a view down a path leading to daughter True's playhouse.
—Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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The first known use of playhouse was
before the 12th century
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“Playhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/playhouse. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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playhouse
noun
play·house
-ˌhau̇s 
1
2
: a small house for children to play in
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