(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”.
Portico
Definition:
(n.) A colonnade or covered ambulatory, especially in classical styles of architecture; usually, a colonnade at the entrance of a building.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another officer posted on the portico outside the wooden White House doors mistakenly assumed the doors were locked.
(2) In a letter to a corporation official, Cottam wrote: "Desecration: graffiti have been scratched and painted on to the great west doors of the cathedral, the chapter house door and most notably a sacrilegious message painted on to the restored pillars of the west portico.
(3) In its current state there is some confusion: what the architecture strongly suggests is the front door, beneath a boldly overhanging portico, is not in fact the front door, and visitors have to seek out a more obscure entrance around the side.
(4) The Opera and Ballet Theatre – a staggering work of architecture whose irregular, angled forms flowing down to the river could have been built yesterday – is now screened from view by structures that try (with impressive ineptitude) to look like they were built 2,000 years ago, with mock-19th century candelabras and a Roman portico with allegorical figures in what looks like gold lame.
(5) The Rotunda, with its famous Dome Room and outside porticos, continues to receive critical acclaim for its architectural design.
(6) There are also three nods for jazz artists, namely Polar Bear’s In Each And Every One, GoGo Penguin’s v2.0 and First Mind by Nick Mulvey, who was formerly a member of previous nominees Portico Quartet.
(7) Aside from rock duo Royal Blood and indie band Bombay Bicycle Club – whose So Long, See You Tomorrow is a rather more inventive and interesting album than their nondescript image suggests – the rest of the list concentrates largely on albums by artists who have yet to really gain mass attention: poet Kate Tempest's debut for independent hip-hop label Big Dada; Nick Mulvey, a former member of Mercury-nominated jazz collective Portico Quartet turned singer-songwriter; electronic auteur East India Youth; idiosyncratic Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers; FKA Twigs, whose avant-garde take on R'n'B might have been conceived with the express intention of getting on the Mercury shortlist.
(8) The influence of Italian colonists may still be seen in the dilapidated stone porticos of Asmara’s central market and the disused railway line running down to the Red Sea coast.
(9) The beige modern building overlooks a playground; its entrance is a grand remnant from an older structure, with columns and a portico; the ground floor is home to classrooms and 326 pupils.
(10) Yes, he and the RIBA might agree on matters of sustainability, and will work together on these in the future, yet at heart there remains as gap as wide as the portico of the west front of St Paul's Cathedral.
(11) Like other Britons in failing health who choose to depart through the modernist portico leading to the Dignitas organisation in a Zurich apartment, their deaths last Friday triggered a police inquiry.
(12) Railway locomotives of the 1830s were often decked out in neoclassical or gothic ornament designed to disguise their rude mechanical parts, while Britain's first mainline trunk railway, the London to Birmingham, concealed its terminus at Euston behind a giant Greek Doric portico.
(13) While the restaurant stretches over a bright, modern two-floor dining room, the place to be is sitting beneath the vaulted portico at one of the tables set between each of the marble columns, looking out over the garden and the palace’s ornate dome.
(14) The public greetings were measured and diplomatically warm – Melania Trump handing over a blue Tiffany gift box under the North Portico.
(15) Mark Knoller (@markknoller) In pouring rain, GOP Senators boarding their buses parked in front of the North Portico.
(16) Her noodle stall is sheltered from the rain by the vast portico of a government bank, built in the 1930s by the British when Burma was part of the empire.
(17) The breach set off security alarms but Gonzalez outran pursuing officers, ignoring their commands that he stop, and entered the North Portico doors.
(18) But now, in a moment of jaw-dropping trickery, the architecture is joining in the fun: the Victorian market portico appears to have been ripped away from its colonnade, and left hanging in thin air.
(19) Yet standing on the West Portico of the Capitol, on the spot where John F Kennedy spoke 56 years ago, he unfurled the slogan of Lindbergh and Buchanan as the mission of his presidency.
(20) The account differed starkly from a press release issued by the secret service theday after the incident, which merely said Gonzalez was “physically apprehended after entering the White House North Portico doors”.