1.   The kind of trophy house that a parvenu buys to prove to people, and to himself, that he has indeed arrived.

2.   For the record, the Forest Service warned us not to line those timbered ridges with trophy houses, but we built them anyhow.

3.   It would have been just another trophy house until Jim Williams shot Danny Hansford and John Berendt wrote the book.

4.   Laced with older homes on smaller lots, the north side has far fewer trophy houses than the south.

5.   Most segments of the market seem active -- from first-time home buyers looking for condos to executives trading up for trophy houses in the suburbs.

6.   The summer residents with their trophy houses are the ones who pay the bills.

7.   They come bearing money, buy up prime real estate and decorate the hills with trophy houses.

8.   Trophy houses are a slap in the face of the traditional.