: any of many similarly designed houses built on a tract of land
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Recent Examples on the WebMidway, as in between downtown Portland and the city of Gresham. Cathy Holmlund has been living in a 1959 ranch-style tract house in outer Southeast Portland for 35 years.oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2020 Our modest tract house in a New York suburb was too small for a family of seven; Helen found and moved us into a much bigger, far more elegant one. Ellen Pall, The New York Review of Books, 25 Aug. 2020 According to Adweek, Hollywoodland was actually a subdivision of tract houses and the sign was a billboard for the development. Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 3 May 2020 The extra-large hyoid bones in their vocal tract house massive air sacs that amplify their bombastic voice to superlative heights; they are often regarded as the loudest of any land animal. Jessica Boddy, Popular Science, 3 Feb. 2020 The four children of Jack and Dorothy Hall – three girls and one boy – lived a comfy post-WWII middle-class life in a four-bedroom Southern California tract house with their civil engineer father and homemaker mother. Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2020 Aerial video showed the 55-foot-long, 75-foot-wide building in the 7300 block of Somerset Avenue backing up to tract houses perilously close to the blaze. Colleen Shalbystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2019 The tight-knit, family-friendly community of Mira Mesa epitomizes San Diego’s tract house boom of the 1970s. Martina Schimitschek, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019 Joe’s father, an Air Force officer, bought a small tract house with mortgaged furniture; even the children’s bunk beds and the radio were on loan. Tribune News Service, oregonlive.com, 22 June 2019 See More