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).
The armsman stepped aside at the top of the steps off the porch. Ordermaster
The rain stopped as soon as we had positioned ourselves in the doors and windows overlooking the lawn and the porch.
From the porch, watch rafts of birds winter on the water below.
He beckoned her to follow him out to the front porch of the old ranch house where he pointed to a buck grazing in the field across the dirt road.
The church is later English; and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with porch and tower.
The central doorway must have been of still greater beauty; but the whole of the upper part of it is hidden by the porch and parvise inserted beneath the central arch. The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
R. stretched out on the couch while G. and I unloaded the van but she could hardly wait to get into one of the rocking chairs on the front porch where we ate lunch and began the process of decompressing from our long journey.
I even longed for the real Australian rubbish in other families' yards, like the stack of 'dead marines' waiting for the bottle-oh on the back porch.
She wants to remodel her house and garden and sit on one of the white rockers on her front porch.
And in his imagination he saw himself standing tall on the front porch this afternoon.
In the vestibule, I sneaked a glance out the window onto the porch. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Beneath the city's dense urban forest, low walls of Arroyo Seco stone and clinker brick front brown-shingled homes with porches set under graceful overhangs.
A human couple relaxed on a porch swing on the veranda and Max thought the place looked peaceful.
She dragged out the swing and hung it on chains that dangled from the ceiling of the porch. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
A hacking cough from the porch heralded the arrival of Nancy Little and the Doctor.
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There were stars in the night besides those known to astronomers: the stellular fireflies gemmed the black shadows with a fluctuating brilliancy; they circled in and out of the porch, and touched the leaves above Clarsie's head with quivering points of light. In the Tennessee mountains,
These two techniques combine to make the porch shady and cool.
It took a moment, but finally Pa appeared and sat down on the edge of the porch, taking Hoss over his knee to administer two firm swats to his backside.
Midnight at the Stanhope Gate was only a marginal improvement on three o 'clock in the porch of St. Georges. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
the best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with,never say a word,and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
There is a dramatic semi-cantilevering porch with a trellis and a skylight running along the ridge line of the roof. FLWBC 2008 Wrap-Up: Day Two
The two pints of milk left at her suburban villa were untouched in the shade of the porch. Times, Sunday Times
But the most bustling of the galleries is a sun-washed, two story lavender Spanish colonial building with a latticed metal balcony porch.
The left-hand wing houses an oval entrance porch that leads to a fine reception hall decorated in pink with Ionic columns, a marble fireplace and a lantern-style window high in the central apex of the ceiling.
When they reached the cottage, Wade parked near the porch and carried her suitcase inside.
As they disappeared down the drive, he stood watching them from the front porch. AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
When we are designing porch furniture and partition, should consider the consistency of integral style, avoid to be pursuit flowery and desultorily .
So in the evening, after we had finished the flower planting in a new flower bed, we sat down on our porch to admire our garden.
Sometimes she sits in a lounge chair on the back porch and stares off into space.
The front door was open, revealing a stone-flagged porch, and an inner door with frosted glass in the top half.
I left my BMW beside the Weston Mercedes, climbed the steps on to the L-shaped front porch, and rang the bell. THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
The square battlemented tower with its octagonal lantern above is poorly executed, but otherwise the uncommon conception arrests attention and is worthy of praise: The parvise chamber over the porch, like many others, was for a long period the town school. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
Claire spent the morning in a wicker rocker on the screened porch with a book.
Sandwiches are a specialty, especially the porchetta with fennel and the meaty forza Italia, put together with speck, prosciutto, cheese and arugula.
A porch extended from the kitchen to a trellised walk dripping wisteria in the spring.
In the US, the widely accepted rule is that if your front (porch) light is on, you're welcome to trick-or-treaters at your door, and you'll have candy.
The railing on the porch looks like it is going to fall off.
But it is the love of the critics that gratifies Cooper the most, such as when the Daily Mail eruditely weighs in on one of his choicest works: "In one hilarious snap the moment he mocks a dog trapped behind the glass of someone's front porch is taken with almost human-like humor. ARTINFO: Is This Cat a Great Photographer? The Seattle Art Scene's Feline Phenomenon
This contains a veritable outpouring of medieval art; frescoes cover most of the interior walls and porch.
They sat on the back porch as morning breathed a frosty zephyr across the weathered planking.
Only pensile hook of cap of a garment is afraid is the simplest porch is decorated, add a piece of taboret to be able to sit down rest, dissolved the insecurity that go out and haste.
She frowned, looking around the porch. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
It was impossible to associate his remembered almost total uninterest in his surroundings with those chintzy curtains, that hanging basket of trailing ivy and fuchsia over the door of Faith Cottage or the two brightly painted yellow tubs still garish with summer flowers which had been artfully placed one each side of the porch. She Closed Her Eyes
Three weeks later when the roses were all aburst of bloom over the porch at Lo, Michael!
Hugh drove slowly up to the cookhouse, where Matt had just stepped out onto the porch. DANSVILLE
At dusk we sat on the porch, in the faint blown scent of old rose. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
But it's nicely scaled and proportioned, and front porches enliven the streets.
I roll to the door and out on to the porch that Grandmother referred to as the piazza.
I overshot the house where he was staying, so he ran off the porch and ran down the middle of the street, arms waving; I did a U-turn and drove back at him, weaving all over the street.
Our conservatories and porches can be designed to your exact requirements.
When they reached the small porch, he shone the torch on the bellpush, pressed it. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
Gank will probably come around the corner any minute and sit on the porch and chop it up with you, drink a brew.
The vertical line of the hay fork's middle prong rises almost dead center and is echoed in window's mullion, the house's lightning rod, its porch posts and siding and even in the seams of Papa's overalls. American Idol
Why was I standing on a porch in the middle of some forsaken jungle waiting for the night to engulf me?
Running the length of the forward strut was a ladder for the astronauts to descend from the top porch to the surface.
You will notice the buttresses, the porch, the crenellations on the walls, and the four light mullioned windows.
Any porch, fence, arbor, large trellis, or pergola is enhanced by an annual vine.
The white-painted porch is windowed on the right side.
The front porch which has various door openings gives excellent room for cooking and storing the rest of your gear.
Some buildings had wooden fronts, porches, and sidewalks; the streets were narrow, and buildings were densely concentrated.
Not until it was dark did they leave the porch.
Whether grilling on the back porch or packing a picnic for the beach, there are many cookbooks available to guide you through the best of the season's culinary treats.
So Johnny Appleseed lay down on the front porch and went to sleep.
Midnight at the Stanhope Gate was only a marginal improvement on three o 'clock in the porch of St. Georges. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
My room was far away from everybody else's, on the corner of an enclosed porch - it had once been open, but they walled it up.
Features clearly cast in Harvey's foundry include the iron balustrade over the porch and the balusters of the main staircase.
But all seem to have porches supported by columns of cobblestone brick, or stucco.
Police drilled holes into an overhanging roof in the property's porch area as an extensive search continued. Times, Sunday Times
Search for knowledge, read more, sit on your front porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs.
She would appear on the porch and reign over the street in magisterial beauty.
If the cat spends time on the porch or in other chilly areas, you may want to give him one of these heated beds to warm up with.
On the porch was a pizza delivery driver, the red-and-blue uniform shirt and cap unmistakable, his head bent as he peered at the ticket he held atop the warming bag.
Alternatively, you might linger at the lodge, where the after-dinner floorshow is unique: on the porch a procession of quolls, possums and Tasmanian Devils arrive, politely waiting for you to hand-feed them.
Across the manicured yard a couple of workers putter around the porch.
A cross-axis at the entrance hall opens to the left onto an elaborately shaped dining room - a square with intersecting hemicycles and a half-octagon - and to the right onto a ‘den’ with a half-octagonal porch beyond.
So we brought in the spindly lemon tree that spends all summer soaking up the sun (and the traffic grime) on our porch. Times, Sunday Times
She knew that Harry liked to doss down in the porch.
Presence (Gr. hieron, the temple-house; not the naos, which is the temple area, with its courts and porches), Lev. Easton's Bible Dictionary
A careful restoration from 2004-2006 included Rudolph's dropped covered walkway rebuilt between house and carport, built-in furnishings around living room pit rebuilt by hand to Rudolph's specs, restore the rolling walls along east side of house, fascia, overhangs, posts, screen porch off living room pit. May 2008
I about-faced, marched from the porch and started for the road.
You walk across the courtyard into the arabesqued porch directly opposite the entrance and you are in a weirdly high single-file corridor like those secret passages in the innards of Egyptian pyramids. Remnant of a Humanist Past
On top of that my big brother, Jake, hit a baseball through the porch window and made me take the blame, so I ended up with a licking from Dad.
That second night in the porch was enough and I resolved to move on the following day, whatever happened.
Blocking the open - sided porch, framed by the enveloping fog, stood a tall grave - faced policeman.
There was a hound dog laying in the yard. An old man in overalls was sitting on the porch.
The facade of the house was even grander than the back and its frontispiece was an immense wraparound porch. ROUGH JUSTICE
They shared the ensuing silence amicably, until the heavy tread of boot-clad feet rumbled on the narrow wooden porch of the inn's street frontage.
Is there a light in the porch or garden?
And Gibbs says a confrontation between protesters and politicians over the Stamp Act took place on the front porch.
While I laud the good folk at GunBroker for their niceness in supporting Breast Cancer research (after all can't loose the front porch, everybody likes the front porch) WHY does anybody think an ugly pink gunstock will encourage fundraising? GunBroker.com Fights Breast Cancer With Pink Rifle Auction
The pleasure of the poet, and the reader, is seeing these mean little memes circulating freely, doing their damage, a leperous distilment poured into the porches of our ears. Hullabaloo
A moment later the front door opened and Ben heard the heavy tread of Hoss's boots against the porch boards.
A massive rammed earth fireplace offers hearths to porch and living area, and becomes the physical and psychological link between the two strips.
You will notice the buttresses, the porch, the crenellations on the walls, and the four light mullioned windows.
This material is also excellent for use on low-pitched roofs in areas such as porches, sunrooms and shed dormers, and as additional protection in valleys and other particularly vulnerable areas.
On view here are complex, deeply sculptured surfaces, wrought-iron grillwork, elaborately carved decorations surrounding round-arched windows, arcaded entrances and porches, and tile roofs.
It might be too cold for an outside shower but if bundled up appropriately, the idyllic back porch nestled in the woods is a great place to unwind. Country Home Rentals For A Relaxing NY Weekend (PHOTOS)
This morning, it's a dead bird on the small porch, legs up in the air, claws gripping nothing, stomach distended.
Today the concept of a pedestrian-friendly, densely built community of wood-frame cottages with front porches and picket fences hardly seems avant-garde.
In spite of the humiliating needlework, I kept going back again and again to the Harrises' porch that summer.
This terrace is carefully organized to provide welcoming porches on the northern side, and to give southward views of the dramatic landscape over the games field.
Before recordings were available, people had to wait to hear wonderfully performed music; at home, people either went without or made their own, at parlor spinet pianos or on the porch with guitar and banjo.
There was a lot of stuff stored on the front porch: old bedroom sets and mattresses, paintings, knick-knacks, and paper grocery bags containing newspapers.
He told his driver to stop outside a broken-down shack, where an emaciated woman and two young men sat on a porch surrounded by household debris.
Standard features include Regency panelled doors, canopy style porches and patio doors to the rear garden.
The old man just sits on his rocking chair on the porch from day to day.
Before he could protest, Raylaa had already disappeared into the porch, where the hideous sidecar and the motorcycle with the peeling red paint stood, worn down and decrepit.
Architects began designing houses that had picture windows instead of porches.
Milo moved in for one last kiss, then he turned and walked down the porch steps, moving towards his car.
More red glads were tucked in the flag holder on the porch posts above yet another picture, Elvis in a Hawaiian lei. GRACED LAND
Around 300bce, zeno and his students began teaching their views from a stoa , or porch, in the marketplace.
And all these sepia-toned images are lent strength by the gentle poetry of the lyrics, and the light, front-porch swing of the acoustic guitars, banjos, mandolins and strings.
I scraped once and immediately a frog sounded once from beneath the porch.
At the sight of the ranch house, he sighs with relief and leaves his tired horse at the edge of the porch.
If while you are sitting on your porch sipping Margaritas a trio of itinerant musicians serenades you with mandolin, lute, and hautboy, you have no obligation, in the absence of a contract, to pay them for their performance no matter how much you enjoyed it. Need for Recusals by Judges
The breeze freshened, after the sun went down, ... there were stars in the night besides those known to astronomers; the stellular fire-flies gemmed the black shadows with a fluctuating brilliancy; they circled in and out of the porch, and touched the leaves above Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
From an oak that shaded the porch a squirrel chippered at them. Darkness and Dawn
I thought of grape ivy in baskets, to hang from the porch.
Jefferson sometimes called them ‘porticles,’ a word that suggests small porches or porticos.
Sostegno, “Dietro le quinte della Festa della Porchetta: Risvolti economici e organizzativi,” Il Carrobbio, 1985. Delizia!
At exactly six-thirty that evening, I walked up the steps of Lydia's front porch to ring her doorbell.
And like the bright sun of the Caribbean the porch light flickered on.
In one striking image, a porch is shown elaborately decorated for Christmas with tinsel, stockings, ornaments and toys.
In structures at all levels of importance, gates, doors and doorways, together with porches and porticos, are usually much more elaborate than roofs, walls and windows.
It was thick and you could see, by the porch lights, wispy tendrils insinuating themselves around plants and patio furniture.
But if you look to your Johnson, you will find, to your better satisfaction, that the name means "bird of porticos," or porches, from the Gothic "swale; Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
An enclosed entrance porch leads to the original front door with stained glass insets, beyond which is the spacious entrance hallway.
On the appointed day and time, the dowager's doorbell rang and she walked out onto her porch.
Vienna's Jammin 'Java is launching its own imprint with local "front porch pop" band Deep River. Sugarland tops Kings of Leon on charts; Grohl, Novoselic, Vig back together; Bon Jovi to Verizon, Wu-Tang to Falls Church
The columns of these pillared porches have sixteen flutings, a plain abacus, and no plinth. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
One morning we came upon an abandoned undernourished puppy on the porch.
I have some salmon smoking on the back porch and a flank steak ready for the BBQ after marinating in teriyaki and horseradish. A retraction -- at least, part of one (Jack Bog's Blog)
There are delightful libraries, more aromatic than stores of spicery; there are luxuriant parks of all manner of volumes; there are Academic meads shaken by the tramp of scholars; there are lounges of Athens; walks of the Peripatetics; peaks of Parnassus; and porches of the Stoics. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
This brand new property is now an exact replica of the original building, with just the addition of a small entrance porch.
The three of them sat in the wide wicker chairs on the front porch, watching as the sun set.
The buildings of the monastery were demolished in 1897 and only the porch remains of Dientzenhofer's work.
To the left. there is a beautiful entry hall. a sitting room. and a sun porch.
When they were done eating, she sent him back out onto the porch and cleaned up quickly, then hustled out. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
Since winter is coming, we should glaze in a porch.
They walked to the pillared porch, Anne fretting about her case left in the car. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Dale peered through the peek-hole in the front door, saw nothing but a dim shape, and flicked on the porch light.
She sat on the front porch swing.
She dropped down onto the roof of the porch and caught her foot on a loose slate which crashed to the ground beneath her.
St. Augustine in the north porch of St. Peter's Abbey church, afterwards known as St. Augustine's. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
The picket fence that once enclosed the lawn was gone, too, and people just drove their cars right up to the porch.
Flowers, left by local people, fill the porch of the 19 th-century chapel where the Queen Mother was a regular worshipper.
Roe noted that the agency also has received reports of other exotic animals being found throughout Pennsylvania, such as a binturong found on a Beaver County family's porch in 2002; an African serval, resembling a small cheetah, which had been illegally possessed and escaped from its Pittsburgh owner several times before being confiscated in 2001; and two wallabies that escaped from their owners in Ambler in 2001. Archive 2007-03-01
When we fixed it the first time we left a bit of a leak and the wood over a few years on the porch rotted, so my dad and I spent a whole weekend re-roofing the entire porch from scratch.
The debris rained down for 20 minutes on house roofs, porches, gardens and greenhouses, whilst what were obviously substantial spent rockets plummeted into surrounding streets lined with cars.
I went out there on the front porch.
Each had its gay little garden, its shrubbery of lilac, holly, or laurustinus, and its creeper-covered porch.
Ah Duo watched from the porch, grinning.
The letter is "unsealed," but it just sets on the porch -- no one wants to accept its contents. Chuck Gutenson: Yellow Ledbetter's War Commentary?
Search for knowledge, read more, sit on your front porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs.
Stella goes offstage onto the porch as Blanche comes onstage out of the bathroom, and sees Stanley alone.
I bet she can both hear and smell those mangy animals from her front porch.
The two-and-one half story, five-bay, clapboarded house has been considerably altered since its completion in 1794, and now has a mid-nineteenth-century recessed main entrance and a late nineteenth-century porch on the east end.
the best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with,never say a word,and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
Nothing remains but the brick chimney and stone porch.
We decided to take a short cut through the neighborhood yards playing follow the leader over hedges, fences, porch banisters, etc.
She would appear on the porch and reign over the street in magisterial beauty.
The capstone porch railings are made of quarried Indiana limestone, and the quakeproof foundation includes 29-inch thick walls.
You'll want to consider sunrooms or screened porches you can build now or add in the future.
As you came into the house from a porch, there was a wonderful hallway, then the stairs were to your right. Times, Sunday Times
This was the entrance to our front porch, which was all glassed in.
William Mckinley's dignified front - porch campaign won him the presidency in 1896.
Then there's a water butt up by the back door; and some honeysuckle growing over the porch.
She had been on the front porch and he had ridden up the long avenue, dressed in grey broadcloth with a wide black cravat setting off his frilled shirt to perfection.
After Luther had left, Matt turned off the bunkhouse light and went out on the porch to sit in the dark. DANSVILLE
On the left hand side of the farmyard stood a fifties-built bungalow with a neat front lawn and potted geraniums on the porch.
Mostly she aired herself on the front porch after dark in a lap rug.
It sat on a hill that gave a fantastic view of the Nile, its porch open to the breeze and offering an Old World elegance that sharply contrasted with the high-rise modernness of the New Cataract Hotel that adjoined it. From This Beloved Hour
She sleeps under the porch and steals food from the larder.
He used a larger back porch as inspiration, repeating its columns, railings, and even the roof pitch.
They sat on the porch after dinner and talked.
There was a great porch over which creeper climbed and a large glass conservatory stretching along the side of the house. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
Narrow stairs rise to the cooling porch, a tree-house-like room furnished with slatted benches and simple wooden chairs.
Music lovers spent less time getting together for hootenannies on the porch or jam sessions around a piano.
Exclusive of the spires, and the central porch and parvise, the dates of which have been given previously, the whole is of the best and purest Early English style. The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
The air was damp and chill, she was sitting on a cold stone step, and a loud "kerchoo" suddenly startled the two plotters on the porch. The Spartan Twins
Like the back door, it was flung open revealing a tiny arched porch outside.
Cal and I were sitting on the porch, shooting the breeze.
The parvise, or porch, may have been symbolical of the initial stage -- the early provisions of our universities are full of symbolism. The Customs of Old England
Rub the skin of the porchetta with the remaining oil and sprinkle with the sea salt. Times, Sunday Times
Then the way went by long lines of dark windows diversified by turreted towers and porches of eccentric shapes, where old stone lions and grotesque monsters bristled outside dens of shadow and snarled at the evening gloom over the escutcheons they held in their grip. Bleak House
Afterwards we'd lie naked on the shadowy porch drinking beer and watching moths batter themselves against the lamp's chimney.
The enclosed entrance porch has a mosaic tiled floor and leads to a gracious entrance hall with wooden floorboards, a dado rail, ornate cornicing and a centrepiece.
A porch off the great room extends the living space out to a courtyard with a dipping pool and deluxe alfresco kitchen.
Amiens, this central statue, on the 'trumeau' or supporting and dividing pillar of the central porch, is of Christ Immanuel, -- God Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens

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