How to Use sleeping porch in a Sentence

sleeping porch

noun
  • At dusk, an inset sleeping porch on the third floor glows like a lantern above the kitchen and living room.
    — Sarah Medford, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Some even had sleeping porches across the back for comfort on hot summer nights.
    — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Above the sunroom is a sleeping porch that Boss uses for an office.
    — Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • There are four bedrooms and a sleeping porch on the second floor and three more bedrooms on the top level.
    — Kathy Orton, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Just Right When the sun starts dipping low, sleeping porches are all about setting the mood.
    — Maggie Burch, Southern Living, 8 June 2026
  • One of the bonus spaces was previously a sleeping porch, Oliver said.
    — Dallas News, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The second floor includes a sleeping porch and two large bedroom suites plus two additional bedrooms and two baths.
    — Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, Baltimore Sun, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Privacy, Please In their heyday, sleeping porches were often screened to keep bugs at bay.
    — Maggie Burch, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The second floor also contains two guest bedrooms, a family room, and a former sleeping porch (which can be an office or gym space).
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 15 June 2023
  • An upstairs patio at the back end of the house is used as a sleeping porch and the front upstairs patio has views of Swiss Avenue.
    — Dallas News, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Upstairs, a sleeping porch off a bedroom was converted into a sitting room and bathroom to create a master suite.
    — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The second floor includes a sleeping porch and the home’s large primary bedroom, which includes a fireplace, steam shower, and whirlpool tub.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 14 Mar. 2024
  • There’s also a two-bedroom, one-bath guesthouse with its own kitchen, family and dining rooms, and sleeping porch, plus a three-car garage with staff quarters.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Its 43 rooms capture turn-of-the-20th-century class, and some of the eight cabins have twin beds in sleeping porches.
    — Jess Hoffert, Midwest Living, 9 May 2026
  • There are balconies, arcades, terraces, a loggia (half-open hallway), a courtyard and a sleeping porch off the owner’s bedroom.
    — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Sep. 2022
  • There are 84 windows to harvest cross-breezes and a sleeping porch to ensure survival during hot summers without air conditioning.
    — Katharine Jose, Chron, 14 May 2023
  • The third-floor Solarium was originally built as a summer sleeping porch in the early 1900s.
    — Shawn McCreesh, Town & Country, 7 Mar. 2021
  • The house features a vaulted main living space with fireplace and water views, eat-in kitchen with butler's pantry, primary suite with French doors to the hot tub and pool, and sleeping porch with two hanging beds.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Free-air enthusiasts with the morning cold plunge habit admit a warning ferver, tent houses are deserted, sleeping porches scorned, and among the denizens of unheated homes it is covertly rumored there have been no baths these two days past.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Jan. 2018
  • Yes, modern designs can incorporate privacy solutions and cozy elements to create a comfortable and relaxing sleeping porch space within current design standards.
    — Maggie Burch, Southern Living, 8 June 2026

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