(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.
Verandah
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Various members of her family, old and young, are squatting on the verandah packing the supplies in preparation for her 14-hour tour of refugee areas the following day.
(2) I was sitting in my bedroom and I saw the door open,” she says quietly as she sits on her verandah, chickens squawking in the yard.
(3) Expect to lose a few hours lolling in the hammocks on the verandah, eating fresh mango and melon breakfasts, with friends of the Capela family dropping by for beers in the evening.
(4) [Outside] everyone was screaming around but on the other side they were all losing their roofs also.” Mael wrapped her five-year-old son – who remained asleep throughout the ordeal – in a blanket and took shelter in a communal bathroom before spending a sleepless night on her neighbour’s verandah.
(5) Outside Bissau city are exclusive Hispanic-style haciendas with wide verandahs, turquoise swimming pools and gates patrolled by armed guards.
(6) Fifteen subjects who formerly went outdoors very infrequently were studied over a 4-week period while spending 0, 15 or 30 minutes daily sitting on the rest-home verandah.
(7) Verandah trap huts in a Tanzanian village were used to assess the effectiveness of impregnated bednets and curtains in preventing hut entry and feeding by, and in killing of, Anopheles gambiae and An.
(8) We live badly," he says, before huddling together with about 30 children on a shop verandah, opposite a nightclub.
(9) This observation and videotaping session took place in a rural setting, with the women lined up on benches on the verandah of Belpukur College.
(10) In the district of Port Loko up the coast there are reports of people dying on verandahs and corpses rotting in homes.
(11) Nylon bednets impregnated with different insecticides were evaluated in 1988 against wild adult mosquito populations, mostly Mansonia africana (Theobald) and Anopheles gambiae Giles sensu lato, entering experimental verandah-trap huts in The Gambia.
(12) Outside the glazed verandah advertising banana splits, jam doughnuts and Sussex cream teas, two young men are having an argument in Russian.
(13) The response of Anopheles gambiae complex mosquitoes to men sleeping under insecticide-impregnated or untreated bednets in six verandah trap huts was studied during the dry season in The Gambia.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A long, leisurely history ... verandah of the Palm Beach Hotel.
(15) Some of the wounded were lying covered with blankets on verandahs of buildings near the casualty wards.
(16) The planners did a trawl of the most picturesque southern towns – Savannah, Charleston, New Orleans – and borrowed the best from them: town squares, verandahs, gables and front porches.
(17) • Skipness Estate (01880 760207, skipnessseafoodcabin.co.uk ) Kishorn Seafood Bar, Strathcarron, Ross-shire This popular wooden lodge, right in the Highlands, has delicious, cheap seafood and a lovely verandah that looks out over the sea to Skye.
(18) (banana) and Lantana camara thickets as well as under house verandahs and, once, inside a hut.
(19) Each of the twelve huts (including five untreated controls) was fitted with window exit traps and either louvre or verandah traps for mosquito sampling.