porch

Example Sentences

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The house I’m currently living in needs several repairs: There’s a leak in the downstairs wall, water is getting in between the house and the front porch and there have been sewage-line backups downstairs.

From MarketWatch

I plunked down on the porch steps and strained my ears, trying to hear their voices through the open windows.

From Literature

Then I’d sit on the porch and cry over what I’d heard and seen, over what had become of my town.

From Los Angeles Times

“Too many people that don’t know Mississippi think of it as a river, steamboats and some old guy strumming a banjo on a broken porch,” says Mr. Carswell.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Morrison’s, meanwhile, is on the porch of a Mississippi Delta sharecropper.

From The Wall Street Journal