How to use porch in a sentence

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• The paper boy delivers her newspaper to her front porch every weekday.From the entry newspaper
• Grandpa sat on the front porch, hawking and wheezing, as he packed his pipe with cheap tobacco.From the entry hawk
• The wood porch was a honeycomb of termite tunnels before we replaced it.From the entry honeycomb
• We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.From the entry screen
• Gino has an amaretto on the porch after every elaborate meal.From the entry amaretto
• He wasn't there, just the dog, conked out on the porch.From the entry conk out
• Termites will honeycomb a porch made of untreated pine.From the entry honeycomb
• She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.From the entry hull
• Our current paperboy does a nicely consistent job of throwing the paper onto the porch. Our old paperboy sometimes would fling it into the bushes!From the entry paperboy
• Our current papergirl does a nicely consistent job of throwing the paper onto the porch. Our old papergirl sometimes would fling it into the bushes!From the entry papergirl
• Stately old buildings sometimes have punsch-verandas, little glassed-in upstairs porches where people traditionally would imbibe and chat.2018, Rick Steves, Rick Steves Scandinavia, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry punsch
• Garden path or not, she'd found a narrow porch and a door that looked frontish enough.2018, Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne, Kill the Farm Boy, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey, →ISBN, page 267. From the entry frontish
• Then took two broadsword corn dumplings from the basket Mother left out on the porch last night.2014 January 7, Joseph Bruchac, On This Long Journey, the Journal of Jesse Smoke, a Cherokee Boy, the Trail of Tears, 1838, Scholastic…. From the entry broadsword
• The rig builder, toolie, and driller retired to the Colonel's porch to drink.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 287. From the entry toolie
• The porch mood is the condition from which there is an updraw or a downdraw.2011, Frederic Will, Time, Accounts, Surplus Meaning: Settings of the Theophanic. From the entry updraw
• The company has built pretty little whitewashed renthouses with front porches and fenced-in yards.2008, Helen Lavinia Underwood, Under Cedar Shades. From the entry renthouse
• Extra food could be stored in the snow porch, which protected it from predators.2008, Clarissa W. Confer, Daily Life in Pre-columbian Native America, →ISBN, page 188. From the entry snow porch
• And then she put the coffin right out on her front porch.2001 January, Susan Schorn, “Bobby Lee Carter and the hand of God”, in U.S. Catholic, volume 66, number 1, page 34. From the entry something
• The porch, laden with gingerbread trim, surrounded the home on both stories.1999 April 1, Judy Mattivi Morley, Albuquerque, New Mexico, or Anywhere, USA?: Historic Preservation and the Construction of Civic…. From the entry puebloization
• Although the blue smoke disappeared quickly, Catherine smelled it all around her in the porch.1997, Bernard MacLaverty, 'Grace Notes' (novel), (Part 1, at page 57 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition). From the entry thurible
• A slithering back porch visitor and a kindly sign painter helped a young mother overcome snake fright.1992, Wisconsin Natural Resources, volumes 16-17. From the entry snake-fright
• Francine sat in the glider on the porch, swinging lightly, her mind a thousand miles away.1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices, published 2003, page 73. From the entry glider
• Calpurnia set a pitcher and three glasses on the porch, then went about her business.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry front door
• Radley, and all I had to do was come out and sweep the porch.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry parcel out
• Avery sat on the porch every night until nine o’clock and sneezed.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry collection plate
• "Barn could work if you have a light source or a sunroom off your back porch, " he added hopefully.2023, Sinclair Jayne, Marry Me Please, Cowboy. From the entry bottom-line
• That was it for the nonrecyclables from the front porch.2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 358. From the entry nonrecyclable
• Uri grasped a roughsnapped pinebranch from out of the snowjammed dumpster and mounted the steps to the porch.2017, Joshua Cohen, Moving Kings, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 198. From the entry pinebranch
• There's a text on my phone, news flash from Griff, and I'm sitting on our front porch pondering its blazing WTFery.2014, Sarah Ockler, #scandal, Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 354. From the entry WTFery
• Mostly we heard her laughing and the squeaking of the porch swing while the boyfriend felt her up.2013, Dan Pope, In the Cherry Tree, →ISBN. From the entry feel up
• If he'd waited ten seconds until I was on the lighted porch, he'd have had me on toast.2013, Gavin Lyall, The Wrong Side of the Sky. From the entry have someone on toast
• Her husband died three years into their nuptials and she has sat ever since, sour and Havishamesque, waiting on that porch.2012, Matthew Crow, My Dearest Jonah, large print edition, Anstey, Leicestershire: Ulverscroft, F. A. Thorpe (Publishing), published 2014…. From the entry Havishamesque
• As soon as she walks up the porch steps and opens the screen door, she knows that Henry is already home.2010, Julianna Baggott, The Madam: A Novel, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry mommick
• And we have a catio of sorts, a small screened porch built by the previous owner for humans.2010 June 21, Teresa Mears, “Do your kitties need a 'catio'?”, in MSN Money. From the entry catio
• "Hezzy'd be gathering eggs one minute or sweeping the front porch and the next she'd be flat out on the ground.2009, Jan Watson, Sweetwater Run, page 171. From the entry perzactly
• Someone once wrote in to my radio show and double-dog dared me to address a certain issue on the porch.2008, Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, “Buns in the Oven: What Southern Mamas Tell Their Daughters about Having and Raising Children (with Bread…. From the entry double dog dare
• Notwithstanding (3) and (4), no public or private regulations governed the number of people permissible on a Chicago porch.2008, Ed Zotti, The Barn House: Confessions of an Urban Rehabber, New American Library, →ISBN, page 119. From the entry Chicago porch
• He rebuilt the rotted front porch, restoring some of the Victorian filigree in the process, and reshingled the front facade.2007 May 13, Stephen P. Williams, “A Wished-For House With a Hideaway Nook”, in New York Times. From the entry reshingle

Meaning of porch

1. noun A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings.
2. noun A portico; a covered walk.
3. noun The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.

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Questions about porch in a sentence

How do you use porch in a sentence?

Porch is used as a noun. For example: “He sat on his porch, waiting for his friend to come over.”

What is a short sentence with porch?

“She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.”

What does porch mean?

Porch means a covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings.