(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”.
Veranda
Definition:
(n.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(2) Rates Six- to eight-hour stopover, double with veranda from £55, and £8.50 for each additional hour.
(3) A group called the Northwest Santa Tecla Ecological Defence Committee has filed a complaint with the environmental secretariat at the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Act (DR-Cafta) alleging that the Villa Veranda development could threaten local water supplies, biodiversity and quality of life for communities nearby.
(4) • From €130 a night, minimum stay two nights, nollur.is Brimnes Cabins, north Iceland Facebook Twitter Pinterest At the Brimnes Hotel estate, every oh-so-Nordic bungalow (sleeping four or seven) has a private veranda and outdoor hot tub facing lake Olafsfjardarvatn.
(5) From the veranda of his farmhouse on the outskirts of this isolated riverside settlement, Gilvan Onofre can hear the helicopters coming, their rotors slicing through the humid Amazon air.
(6) Amazingly I have found a veranda-installation company still giving away free patio heaters.
(7) It's owned by artists and the interiors are bohemian and homely rather than slick, with lots of ceramics, rugs and artworks, and a gorgeous shady veranda which runs the length of the house with views across the valley.
(8) And several other people were actually still living in their homes, even though they were perched right on the edge of the sand dunes, and they had to very hurriedly evacuate last night and remove all their things, and they’re now coming back this morning to a scene of complete devastation, really, of bits of timber and bits of veranda and bits of front window left on the top of the sand dune, and the rest of the house nowhere to be seen.
(9) That evening we sit out on the veranda for quite a long time, feeling relieved and listening to the blackbird singing on our chimney stack.
(10) Standing on Espirito Santo's shady veranda, Oscar Bollir, the farm manager, insists they do nothing wrong.
(11) Set among nearly 100 acres of forest, these five rooms, 10 miles from Paraty proper, range from luxurious lofts to simpler rooms with fireplaces and verandas looking out over the trees.
(12) Then we draw up to our ranch house, a whitewashed bungalow with a red tin roof and a wraparound veranda.
(13) The refugees, many with possessions piled on their heads, entered Uganda though the frontier district of Bundibugyo and had to sleep in school grounds under the stars or on shop verandas.
(14) Villa Veranda is a private island of calm in a country struggling with pollution and rampant urban crime.
(15) It's the end of the dry season in El Salvador , but behind the thick concrete wall that surrounds Villa Veranda – a gated community outside the capital – the grass is green and the water flows fast.
(16) Then there’s the hustle and bustle of human activity: women smoking fish or peddling food and bric-a-brac; half-naked children rowing their own boats or playing on the verandas of the wooden shacks; congregants in white garments, singing and dancing in impromptu churches on boats.
(17) The standard of the former American confederacy – the battle flag of a long-ago bloody, racial conflict between the states, and a more recent ideological conflict – stood waving deep in enemy territory, surrounded by modernity: in downtown Columbia, verandas and parlors long ago gave way to hipster clothing shops, to kayaking outfitters, to Starbucks.
(18) There are eight suites, some with a four-poster beds or a private veranda overlooking the garden-and-city view.
(19) Standing on his Cliffside veranda, I understand the draw.
(20) Oh, yes, the name lives up to its promise: from the wide front veranda, there is indeed a view of the pale-blue sea, glinting through palm trees.