(n.) A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.
(n.) A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) When the couple looked over their own balcony on the 15th floor of 63 Petershill Drive in Glasgow's Red Road estate, they saw three bodies on the small square of grass below.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Residents sit on a sofa on a balcony of a damaged building in Aleppo’s al-Shaar neighbourhood in Syria.
(4) If it was a bigger explosion, hundreds could have died.” “When I got there there was flesh scattered at the scene, chaos, destruction, broken glass, broken balconies,” he added.
(5) On the other hand, a quick call to Karen and Babis will secure a lift up from the northern port of Loutraki, and most of your time in your room will be spent on the balcony admiring the views over to Skiathos, particularly as the sun sets.
(6) Dozens of pro-marijuana activists followed the debate from balconies overlooking the house floor, while others outside held signs and danced to reggae music.
(7) After publishing their work, the two were having a beer on the balcony of a 17th-century cafe overlooking a Brussels park.
(8) It was only by the merest chance that a visiting medic had been up on a balcony that day and recorded a fuzzy minute of the action on his mobile phone.
(9) Occasional banners on balconies calling for Eta prisoners to be moved to jails nearer to home show where some sympathies lie.
(10) • 1050 East Palm Canyon Drive (+1 760 323 1858, thehorizonhotel.com ); double rooms from $109 The Movie Colony Movie Colony, Palm Springs Concierge John-Michael swears that Jim Morrison made the leap from balcony to pool here in 1969, and that Frank Sinatra was a resident while his nearby home was being renovated – and even though the myth of celebrity tends to get overblown, if not utterly fabricated, in southern California, we found no reason not to take him at his word.
(11) Slowly and painstakingly, the Cadenas managed to erect basic walls that separate them from neighbours and to fence off a balcony that drops 70m down.
(12) The new set has raised viewing platforms on either side, a balcony and a giant video wall.
(13) The bottom floor of the three-storey warehouse is where the high-end Sorvete Brasil ice-cream brand is made, and individual cones can be bought at the balcony, with flavours like fig and nut or lychee, for £1.25.
(14) Richard Lavington, one of the architects of these developments, says that the aims were "to put a balcony on every unit, and to create a positive interface between private and public", by which he means placing family homes close to shared open spaces and streets in such a way that they might readily use them.
(15) Apprehensive about the general's likely utterances, Drapeau had the public address disconnected as De Gaulle waved to the crowds from the city hall balcony.
(16) In 2002 he was seen dangling Prince Michael II from the balcony of a hotel room while legions of photographers watched in horror below.
(17) The lower level rooms each have shady balconies and white-cushioned loungers on which to doze before a dip in the attractive pool.
(18) Lhakpa and another Sherpa, Dorje, had previously lowered Norris down a line of rope attached to the mountain from a section at 8,500m known as "the balcony".
(19) To the rear is the stylishly poised Miramar restaurant and on one side the jauntier hotel Belle-Vue, with its tiny, busy balcony restaurant poking out on the first floor.
(20) The bar is dark and friendly, and has a balcony for people watching and good local DJs playing at weekends.
Porch
Definition:
(n.) A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk. See also Carriage porch, under Carriage, and Loggia.
(n.) A portico; a covered walk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sitting on his stony porch, Rao asserts that he is not being romantic about the benefits of agriculture: “Here we earn more than 120,000 rupees [£1,170] a year, and our cost of living is one-fifth that of a city’s.
(2) The two test forms were split halves of the Porch Index of Communicative Ability.
(3) She has a monkey that sits on her shoulder and a horse that lives in her porch.
(4) Tony Terrell Robinson was born into poverty and spent the last moments of his life bleeding from a gunshot wound, surrounded by no one but local police officers on the porch of his shared apartment.
(5) Then go beg the lady with the clipboard, while others swan past to join the cocktail-swilling vacationers swathed in white linen on the porch.
(6) A few minutes later, a witness says she saw officer Kenny and another officer dragging the limp, bloody body of the biracial 19-year-old out on to the porch.
(7) In a small, rural Appalachian settlement, the pattern of retirement to the porch illustrates how claims by old men for social attention and care are anchored in the interests of others and are vested with significance for the entire community.
(8) I like their morals … but I suspect that he doesn’t have the fire in his belly [to win the election].” Standing to Clarke’s right on the porch of the picturesque Grand Hotel, consultant Greg Behling said: “What the press tells us is that he’s geared for the long haul.
(9) I found myself on a country road featuring half a dozen cottages, with porches and greenhouses.
(10) She slept on her parents’ porch, or on the bathroom floor, because those were the only places she could breathe.
(11) For her, “Sambo” recalls the blubber-lipped, blue-black caricatures of African American children known as piccaninnies , perched on dilapidated porches, half-clothed and dusty, and as happy in squalor and ignorance as they can be.
(12) With a revascularisation time of 19 sec as a "cut off" for ulnar abnormality the PORCH test, unlike the Allen's test, was perfectly predictive of an abnormal ulnar collateral circulation and had no false positives.
(13) They have a lot of staff.” The help also travel in style, joining their employers on private jets or helicopters into East Hampton airport, where the parking lot is packed with Porches and Rolls-Royces with blacked out windows.
(14) Photograph: Steven Morris Across the road from the Cove House Inn, at Brandy Cottage, Shaun Souster was mopping out his porch after seawater poured in.
(15) The 67-year-old film-maker might have once translated the works of Heidegger, but he'll sit on the porch of an evening, beer in hand.
(16) Photograph: Mark Makela for the Guardian ‘The media just hates him’ Facciponti, the Nazareth resident flying a Trump flag, sat down for a chat on her porch swing.
(17) You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat… When she stepped on to the porch there was nothing urgent or harsh in her manner.
(18) They would sit in the Durrs’ living room, or on their porch, and Stevenson would do as he was told and just listen to the three women, then in their 80s, “laughing, telling stories and bearing witness about what could be done”.
(19) Her son, Deno, was murdered three years ago sitting on a porch in Chicago.
(20) Perhaps inevitably, their comments gives the film an air of hagiography bordering on idolatry, or even theology – at one point Hana Ali speaks of her mother, Porche, “seeing God in his eyes”.