(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”.
Ranch
Definition:
(v. t.) To wrench; to tear; to sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion.
(n.) A tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ranch and management x ranch effects accounted for more of the variation in shrink than PC did.
(2) These results indicate overall productivity estimates of 51 and 120 kg of weaner calf per cow per year and 86 and 188 kg of 18-month old calf per cow per year for the cattle post and fenced ranch respectively.
(3) But their joy didn't last long; a week later, 11 rhino were found on a single day at two private ranches northwest of Johannesburg.
(4) In the video, Pablo Hernan Sierra says he organised a militia that operated from the Guacharacas ranch owned by Uribe's family in the northwestern state of Antioquia in 1996 when Uribe was the state's governor.
(5) From the latter finding, it can be inferred that the 4 serodemes were present on the ranch throughout the study period.
(6) The practicing veterinarian or animal husbandman must evaluate the specific climatic conditions prevailing on the farm or ranch in question and integrate the components of that climate into the management or health practices to be recommended.
(7) In 2003 he was the subject of a documentary by the British filmmaker Martin Bashir in which he admitted to sleeping in the same room as children at his ranch.
(8) Other hobbies included watching husbands die, remarrying on the Southfork ranch lawn, and being played by a different actor for a season.
(9) Bundy is accused of recruiting hundreds of supporters to his ranch in 2014, where the US bureau of land management was making arrangements for his cattle to be impounded due to unpaid grazing fees and fines dating back to 1998.
(10) The potential impact on aquatic ecosystems of supplementing the diets of beef cattle with selenium (Se) was studied on 4 northern California ranches.
(11) The oil's back too, gushing forth on Southfork ranch within seconds of the start of the new pilot.
(12) All mink on the ranches were tested during the pelting season and before the breeding season for 4 consecutive years.
(13) Federal police had said they encountered a truck and took fire from its passengers before being led to the ranch.
(14) The frequency of trypanosome infection in Glossina morsitans submorsitans and G. tachinoides, at the game ranch of Nazinga (Burkina Faso), was examined.
(15) Local power officials at the meeting said the move would also cut power to several surrounding ranches and that the only way to isolate the wildlife refuge would be to send men to the site to cut the local lines.
(16) From serum specimens taken in 1982 and 1987, the median half-life of 2,3,7,8-TCDD in these Ranch Hand veterans was found to be 7.1 yr (95% confidence interval about the median of 5.8-9.6 yr).
(17) Half-body tick collections and visual assessment of tick burdens were performed monthly over six months on 100 bulls at the Kenya National Boran Stud, Mutara Ranch, Kenya.
(18) He claims that since he began working with lions at the ranch in January, the owners have not sold on any lions to be hunted.
(19) Rancher Cliven Bundy outside his ranch house on April 11.
(20) They are kept in a small pen behind the Lion's Den, a pub on a ranch in desolate countryside 75 miles south of Johannesburg.