This is a sweet house made with gingerbread cookie walls and roof. People often build it at Christmas and use candy and icing to decorate it.
We made a gingerbread house for Christmas.
The children decorated the gingerbread house soon.
A gingerbread house is a food item. People bake it to eat it or to show at parties. It is usually sweet and spicy with ginger and other flavors.
She ate a piece of the gingerbread house.
The gingerbread house tasted sweet and spicy.
Sometimes gingerbread houses are made to look nice and to decorate homes or stores. People do not always eat these houses; they keep them as decoration.
The gingerbread house stood on the table all December.
People use gingerbread houses as Christmas decoration.
Sometimes artists or architects use the idea of a gingerbread house to create designs with detailed decorations or playful shapes. This meaning is more about style than food.
The artist created a gingerbread house-inspired sculpture.
The building design looked like a gingerbread house.
People can call something a 'gingerbread house' to say it is weak or not strong. This is a figurative meaning used in speech to compare real houses to fragile gingerbread models.
Be careful; that shelf is a gingerbread house.
His plan was a gingerbread house and fell quickly.
In video games or apps, a gingerbread house is a digital object that looks like a real gingerbread house. Players can build or buy it in the game world.
I built a gingerbread house in the game.
The virtual gingerbread house has many candies.
Some old houses, especially in the Victorian era, have many wood decorations like icing on a gingerbread house. These real houses are called 'gingerbread houses' because of their appearance.
The town has many gingerbread houses from the 1800s.
Gingerbread houses show delicate wood decorations.
