(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.
Verandah
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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.