porch

How To Use porch In A Sentence

• In a couple of days she'd have built you a nice little house with a front porch and a back garden. Times, Sunday Times
• She huddled inside the porch as she rang the bell.
• The inn we occupied had one of these porches: Madame Barbot, our landlady, and her maid, were both dressed in Breton costume, with lace-trimmed embroidered caps and aprons of fine muslin, clear-starched and ironed with a perfection which the most accomplished "blanchisseuse du fin" of Paris would find it difficult to surpass. Brittany & Its Byways
• They're trapped, on boats, roofs, porches, surrounded by black and putrid water.
• Kathy crossed the porch, knelt down beside him, pressed the palm of her hand against his forehead.
• Now, whenever I go out on the porch I remember how rusty and pitted the railings used to look and how it bothered me, and the several hours I spent sandpapering it smooth, then the three coats of brown Rustoleum I applied, and now I'm watching it get whiter and cleaner with every new layer of paint I apply. A Productive Day
• The three of them sat in the wide wicker chairs on the front porch, watching as the sun set.
• British influence, with wooden jalousies, wide porches, and patterned railings and fretwork, dominated urban architecture in the colonial period.
• I take in the dock-green porch swing , the birch-leg table , the twin BED where my sister sleeps , the smoky glass of the kerosene lantern.
• He ... stood in the porch a minute to recover his composure" (John Galsworthy).