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sleeping porch

noun

Definition of sleeping porch

as in sunroom

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Recent Examples of sleeping porch Highlights include a media room and a sleeping porch, along with a spacious fireside living room topped with a statement chandelier. — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 5 May 2025 Two guest rooms — ideal for Kamal and Riva’s twin daughters — connect through a former sleeping porch with a fireplace and built-ins, creating flexible space for an office, hobby room or hangout area. — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 13 June 2026 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 Residential builders soon caught on, and by the early 1900s, sleeping porches were appearing in homes from Minneapolis to Brooklyn, New York. — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for sleeping porch

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Noun

In the sunroom, a boy played concertos on the violin, signalling that this was not an ordinary weekday lunch.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
The outdoor sunroom comes with four removable mesh walls, transforming the space into an open-air pavilion.

— Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2026

Definition of sunroom

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After Alex’s death, a youth who was placed in the Bailey home a few months before the crash said that Bailey allegedly often drank and slept on the sunporch.

— Ginny Monk, courant.com, 9 Mar. 2022
In the early 1800s, the family created a common roof and sided the two cabins and built a sunporch.

— Taylor M. Riley, The Courier-Journal, 29 Mar. 2018

Definition of sunporch

Noun

There’s also a porte cochere and parking garage for seamless coming and going without any risk of paparazzi or rabid Beliebers.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 7 July 2026
Patients access the complex — created by merging a former law office, funeral home, car dealership and Dunkin’ Donuts — by driving around back where a porte cochere leads into a soaring atrium.

— T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2025

Definition of porte cochere

Noun

The safe stayed in the hall briefly, moving outside near the Capitol’s east portico for the next 80 years.

— Sydney Topf, The Washington Examiner, 24 June 2026
Guests re-create scenes for social media, posing under the geometric portico, at window sills, in elevators or on the side of the bed in the custom Masaru Mineo yukata (a light Japanese robe).

— Carrie Bell, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026

Definition of portico

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