portico

The portico was self-contained; at the press of a button Colin turned it into a prison cell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Bulletproof glass encasing the portico for his annual appearance with the Easter Bunny?

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026

Trump finally appeared on the portico of the Blue Room after 7 p.m. on Wednesday to welcome new interns to what the White House described as a “soiree” on the South Lawn.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025

I ran from the White House briefing room, past the portico entrance of the West Wing to our camera position on the lawn, and flung on an ear piece connecting me to the studio.

From BBC ● May 5, 2025

Briony lingered another minute or two, as though held there by the music, then, annoyed with her own cowardice, hurried out onto the portico.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Its White City—a temporary demonstration of the grandeur of classical architecture, with Greek and Roman-style colonnades and porticoes arranged around a lake—had been designed by America’s greatest architects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

Dozens of porticoes along the outer walls are bricked in and divided into dark, gated rooms holding saints’ bones and candlelit altars.

From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

The medieval porticoes are a cherished meeting place for Bologna’s residents, sheltering them from the sun and rain and serving as a crossroads of civic life.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2021

Front doors are set back several feet from the facades to create sheltering porticoes.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2017

Icons gloomed from the porticoes or raised stiff fingers in the glinting chapels.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Washington is a city obsessed with projecting power through stone, and littered with overinflated federal buildings of white marble dressed up with colonnades, pediments and porticos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

The entire city is filled with beautiful archways and pillars and covered porticos.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

At Bard, the weather drove us inside and out, from his office to benches and tables and porticos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2022

Once discharged, Saint Phalle moved to Spain, where the architecture of Antoni Gaudí — particularly his Parc Güell in Barcelona, with its undulating porticos and mosaic-covered benches — would decisively influence her later public works.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2021

Clinging to the mountainside were dozens of multileveled palaces—a city of mansions—all with white-columned porticos, gilded terraces, and bronze braziers glowing with a thousand fires.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan