How to Use porch in a Sentence

porch

noun
  • The house has a large front porch.
  • Then Chris brings me, a book and his phone on the porch with him.
    — Jonah Bayer, SPIN, 14 Apr. 2022
  • In the backyard, the pool is lit up and jack-o-lanterns hang from the porch.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Clark stayed on his porch, about 5 feet away from the man.
    — oregonlive, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Except there’s a large bronze plaque on the front porch, next to the door.
    — Jerry Carino, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The man was standing on the front porch and smoke was coming from the home.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2024
  • But the highlight of this space is the large windows that open the room to a view of the front porch.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 June 2022
  • The woman and three others were on the home’s porch when the shots were fired.
    — cleveland, 29 July 2022
  • There’s a short porch in straightaway right and left. ...
    — Nick Alvarez | [email protected], al, 9 June 2023
  • Little chance of checking in to find that the screened porch smells of mildew.
    — Christian L. Wright, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Calming Blues In the South, a touch of blue paint on the porch is nothing new.
    — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 1 May 2025
  • There’s a large room joined by a porch, along with a lofted area.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The crumbling floor of the second-floor porch is a big project, and there are small ones.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
  • Three columns support the roof of the front porch, which is reached by a set of stairs.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
  • So, just place it in the yard, on the porch, or even take it tailgating.
    — Aly Walansky, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Some columns were blown off the porch and the windows of her Jeep were blown out.
    — Gerald Herbert and Rebecca Santana, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Some columns were blown off the porch and the windows of her Jeep were blown out.
    — Gerald Herbert and Rebecca Santana, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Three of them were upstairs, but the fourth, the best, was at the far end of the screened porch overlooking the lake.
    — Kathryn Davis, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
  • The student crushed a pill and snorted it on the home’s front porch, the complaint said.
    — Alfredo Corchado, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Sam Taggart rapped on the door of a house in the Salt Lake City suburbs, then stepped off the porch.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Wooden steps once attached to the porch lay in the front yard, leading to nowhere.
    — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
  • Over coffee on his porch, Mr. Martínez González, who is in his mid-60s, takes the long view.
    — Charlie Cordero, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The white paint on the left is from the porch of a beach house with a very small driveway that was packed with cars at the time.
    — Heather Havrilesky, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The woman placed his belongings on the porch for the man to retrieve.
    — cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Amanda and Clay find a man in a tuxedo and a young woman on the porch.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Can't wait to put him out on our porch for the holidays!
    — Daniel S. Levine, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Henadii Sydorenko sat on the porch of his apartment building for a break.
    — Hanna Arhirova, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Steps lead up from the front yard to a wide covered porch with a ceiling fan.
    — Angela Serratore, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • With his lefty launch angle, Daniels would be an interesting watch in a park with a short porch in right field.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 11 May 2025
  • The video footage, obtained by the Miami Herald, shows officers confronting a man at gunpoint who is standing on the front porch of a house.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 17 May 2025

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