veranda
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The men sit on rugs beneath the wide boughs of a tree, while two women sit on mats in the shade of a nearby veranda, as goats and chickens roam the compound.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025
Outside, residents can enjoy the warm New Orleans weather while lounging on the covered veranda or soaking in the saltwater pool.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2025
Here, you’ll come across the ruins of the White Point Hot Springs Hotel, where guests once lounged in hot sulfur spring-fed swimming pools and shimmied the Charleston on the veranda.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
The front of the building was remodeled, and its faux stonework, veranda and locked wooden shutters over nonexistent windows resembles a villa.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023
Then Ugwu came around from the backyard, days later, and found the veranda empty and the room door firmly shut.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Today, it also runs a restaurant and hotel with six guest rooms in the main house and five modern cabins with floor-to-ceiling windows opening to private verandas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Soldiers were still securing the streets of the kibbutz, once neatly lined with palm trees, banana plants and single-storey houses with verandas.
From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2023
The colonial-era structure was a staggering sight, with airy verandas, plush living rooms and spacious bedrooms, a garden swimming pool and neatly manicured lawns.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2022
It is an imposing piece of colonial-type architecture that contains several verandas, meeting rooms and living areas, a swimming pool and a huge lawn.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2022
They trotted past the houses on either side—broad, airy verandas that came right down to the edge of the street and were held up by wide round pillars.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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