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How to use veranda in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun

Veranda means a gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building. Example: “Our part of the veranda did not hang over the gorge, but edged the meadow where half a dozen large and sleek horses had stopped grazing to join us.”

Examples of veranda by meaning

nounA gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building.

  • Our part of the veranda did not hang over the gorge, but edged the meadow where half a dozen large and sleek horses had stopped grazing to join us.1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind

More sentences with veranda

  • Xavier sliced the pawpaw in half, emptying the tiny black seeds over the veranda wall.2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 254. From the entry pawpaw
  • The veranda, cluttered with waders, boots, rods and tackle, is where the fishing day begins.2015 April 2, Tom Fort, “Trout fishing in Chilean Patagonia [print version: Gone fishing – and waking up in heaven, 4 April 2015, p. T6]”…. From the entry piscatorial
  • Lunch was waiting on the veranda along with Athina’s husband, Pericles.2004, John Mole, “Bringing back Arcadia”, in It’s All Greek to Me! Ruins, Retsina, a Mad Dog… and an Englishman, London: Nicholas Brealey…. From the entry Athina
  • From a big msasa tree that shaded the veranda a pigeon was cooing regularly.1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 285. From the entry msasa
  • Gaining the dak, they were joined on the veranda by four tight-lipped men.1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 161. From the entry dak
  • On the veranda of a Dak bungalow two men attired in khaki shirts and sweaters, sat smoking.1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 147. From the entry dak bungalow
  • All down the wide verandas, on sheetless charpoys, rows of grey-faced men lay silent and moveless.1934, George Orwell, chapter 13, in Burmese Days. From the entry charpoy
  • Flory was standing against the veranda rail, half facing the girl, but keeping his birthmarked cheek hidden.1934, George Orwell, chapter 6, in Burmese Days. From the entry birthmarked
  • Outside in the evening a wattlebird wrenches pieces from the brush tree at the end of the veranda.2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 285. From the entry wattlebird
  • Blue pillars supported wide tin roofs over verandas laden with smiling children who met my waves with grins and giggles.1990, Andrew W. Mitchell, The Fragile South Pacific, An Ecological Odyssey, page 51. From the entry grins and giggles
  • A few moments later, we were all sitting around the veranda of the hunters' dining hall, punishing the gin, as usual.1970, Doc Greene, The Memory Collector, page 49. From the entry punish
  • His heart sank at the vision on the veranda: Syed Omar, in newspaper shirt, making a spectacular entrance, crooning throatily.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 487. From the entry throatily
  • A stray kaffir dog, his skeleton showing clear through tight skin, lay in the pit of blue shade outside the veranda.1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 276. From the entry kaffir dog
  • Old Mattu, the Hindu durwan who looked after the European church, was standing in the sunlight below the veranda.1934, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Burmese Days. From the entry durwan
  • After dinner at the chiefery we assembled on the courtyard veranda to hear the singing of the Papara himeme chorus.1911, The Overland Monthly, page 25. From the entry chiefery
  • I swim and walk, and play tennis and go motoring all day long, and I sleep on a veranda at night.”1911, Carolyn Wells, “The First Arrivals”, in Patty’s Motor Car, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, pages 160–161. From the entry outdoorsiness
  • Access to the veranda is by means of hinged doors, and a deep ducket or projection is provided on each side to form a lookout.1952 January, “British Railways Standard Wagons”, in Railway Magazine, page 59. From the entry ducket
  • Harrison was smoking on his veranda.1909 September, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “A Wedding at the Stone House”, in Anne of Avonlea, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page &…. From the entry self-sacrificingly
  • A Malay elder crawled on to the veranda, greeted Crabbe with an edentulous "Tabek!" and then crouched in a dark corner, chewing a quid of sireh with hard gums.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 309. From the entry edentulous
  • At the other end of the veranda, on two deck-chairs planted side by side and looking away over the bush and the mealie fields, were Mr.1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 8. From the entry mealie

Meaning of veranda

  1. noun A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building.

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Questions about veranda in a sentence

How do you use veranda in a sentence?
Veranda is used as a noun. For example: “Our part of the veranda did not hang over the gorge, but edged the meadow where half a dozen large and sleek horses had stopped grazing to join us.”
What is a short sentence with veranda?
“Harrison was smoking on his veranda.”
What does veranda mean?
Veranda means a gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building.

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