Word Finder - porch

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A covered and enclosed 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.

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A portico; a covered walk.

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The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.

The house is still but a sort of porch at the entrance of a burrow.

They went through the porch and into the stable.

He is waiting at the porch, said the adjutant.

As she walked through the screened porch, a tall figure stepped out of the evening shadows.

The porch posts were black metal with a filigree design.

He stepped out on the front porch, phone to his ear as his gaze probed through the trees.

Finally I got to the porch and you screamed.

Winston rose and steered Dean out to the porch abruptly.

He led her across the wide porch and unlocked the door, flipping on the light.

From the porch we could see the huddled figure of Howie Abbott sitting under a large red umbrella on the edge of the pier.

The Deans retreated to the front porch, allowing Fred and Martha time alone, and Maria to her new chores.

The level of activity at Norfolk Police Headquarters made Parkside's much smaller operation look like the front porch of an old folk home.

The captain went out into the porch and gave some orders in a loud voice.

Now, thanks to an early February thaw, it was warm enough to haul out the front porch rockers and pretend it was summer in the warmth of the mid-afternoon sun.

Exiting traffic from the fireworks delayed his progress, but as he turned in front of Bird Song both Fred and Cynthia were on the porch to greet him.

Ginger Dawkins was sitting on the porch in her pretty blue sweater as if she'd never huffed and puffed her exit a day earlier.

When she reached the porch and stepped up on it, she paused, studying a muddy track.

Prince Hippolyte laughed spasmodically as he stood in the porch waiting for the vicomte whom he had promised to take home.

At the porch he met two of the landed gentry, one of whom he knew.

She followed Cade up the steps and across the wide porch, waiting as he unlocked the door.

Reaching the large house near the Horse Guards' barracks, in which Anatole lived, Pierre entered the lighted porch, ascended the stairs, and went in at the open door.

In the uniform of the Preobrazhensk regiment--white chamois-leather breeches and high boots-- and wearing a star Rostov did not know (it was that of the Legion d'honneur), the monarch came out into the porch, putting on his gloves and carrying his hat under his arm.

Sitting on the edge of the porch, she took deep breaths of the fresh air.

She watched from the porch as he strode to his car.

The woman walked toward the porch with her head down.

Nicholas went out into the porch to question him, and immediately after the elder had given a few replies the sound of cries and blows were heard.

She paused on the sagging porch until he beckoned her in.

She stood on the porch and gazed at the mountain.

One day when they were sitting on the porch steps together, Brandon proposed a solution.

It's a nice house, a keen house, complete with a front porch and swing.

She took his hand to lead him up to the porch where Fred stood.

As he brought the boxes to the porch, she carried them inside.

They used to hang in long festoons from our porch, filling the whole air with their fragrance, untainted by any earthy smell; and in the early morning, washed in the dew, they felt so soft, so pure, I could not help wondering if they did not resemble the asphodels of God's garden.

In the hall the porch door opened, and someone asked, "At home?" and then footsteps were heard.

He dismounted and went up into the porch of a large country house which had remained intact between the Russian and French forces.

From costumes and candy to the row of creatively carved pumpkins on your front porch, October 31 is filled with many memories worthy of scrapbook Halloween projects.

I was living in Mobile, Alabama, where I could leave the plant on the porch.

She followed him out on the porch.

The house was a two-story building with a wide wraparound porch.

As they climbed out of the car, a screen door squealed on the front porch and a short stocky man emerged, running a hand through graying hair.

She turned away from Dawkins, and with a forced smile at Pumpkin and Westlake, left the porch.

One of Mrs. Worthington's friends taped the debate and Fred and Cynthia listened to it while Dean nursed his ego, and an ale or two, on the front porch.

When Fred and Cynthia emerged from listening, they joined him on the porch.

At the same time boots ran across the porch.

Leaving Him on the porch with a bowl full of food, she climbed into the car and headed for the hospital.

She lit it and set it on the back porch.

Ahead of her, Katie stepped off the wooden porch into the ankle high snow and followed the trail Carmen had broken earlier on her trip to light the stove in the dairy.

Snow had drifted across the steps and onto the porch.

The fact that it was the perfect place for a house and provided a spectacular view from the wide porch, was beside the point.

He and his mother would sit out on their porch in the most frenzied storm, watching the wild and wonder­ful display.