Explore Porch through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like structure or construction. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Porch in a sentence
Related words
Porch meaning
- A covered 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. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings.
- A portico; a covered walk.
- The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
Synonyms of Porch
Using Porch
- The main meaning on this page is: A covered 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. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings. | A portico; a covered walk. | The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
- Useful related words include: structure, construction.
- In the example corpus, porch often appears in combinations such as: front porch, the porch, porch and.
Context around Porch
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Porch
- In this selection, "porch" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, front, green, pvc, light, entrance and watching stand out and add context to how "porch" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a green porch light on and a porch has huge. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "porch" sits close to words such as aerospace, bother and crawford, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with porch
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A porch has huge windows and gets plenty of solar gain. (11 words)
Alice Srp sits on the porch of her home in Camanche, Iowa. (12 words)
After that, keep the roof in good shape and build a welcoming front porch. (14 words)
In neighborhoods across the South, Mouzon would search for signs of life on the porch — not just furnishings but a newspaper, a coffee cup, children’s toys — evidence that the porch was being actively used by the people who lived there. (41 words)
And then some time later (though time is an elusive mistress in this den of aural delights), you are now sitting in a rocker on an old farm porch, watching as a storm rolls in, bending the fields with wind. (40 words)
Relatives called law enforcement on March 24 saying the Madison Street man was last seen on March 18. He was on the front porch of his uncle’s home with his clothes folded up on the porch as well. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Many folks will leave their green porch light on to show appreciation year-round, but others specifically have a green porch light on around Veterans Day and Memorial Day.
The last thing they completed was the porch, in which they spent four times the amount that a normal PVC porch would cost as they wanted it to look Victorian and like it had always been there.
In neighborhoods across the South, Mouzon would search for signs of life on the porch — not just furnishings but a newspaper, a coffee cup, children’s toys — evidence that the porch was being actively used by the people who lived there.
The screen porch is a Vineyard amenity no home should be without, and this home’s porch has easy access from the kitchen and can accommodate a large family gathering (well, 10 guests recommended for now).
Relatives called law enforcement on March 24 saying the Madison Street man was last seen on March 18. He was on the front porch of his uncle’s home with his clothes folded up on the porch as well.
Yesterday we cleaned off the back utility porch (a mostly-enclosed porch) and took care to avoid squishing or vacuuming any.
This surrounding margin is known as a blanking interval or blanking region; the horizontal and vertical front porch and back porch are the building blocks of the blanking interval.
About an hour later, Pelham, who is a convicted felon, walked onto the porch and "fired towards several deputies".
Accommodation comprises of entrance porch, entrance hallway with featured central staircase, glass and steel balustrade with solid wooden steps and a sitting room.
After Summers walked past his home, prosecutors said Cushingberry “aggressively approached" her on his neighbor’s porch and demanded his mail several times.
After that, keep the roof in good shape and build a welcoming front porch.
A hole on the left side of the house near the porch is also visible.
A lesson to anyone who may want to buy from her, if you can't take it with you, she might leave it on the front porch to be stolen.
Alice Srp sits on the porch of her home in Camanche, Iowa.
All the Christmas cactus have been outside on the porch in a semi-sunny location since mid-May.
Also - anyone could take a shiat on your front porch and the cops wouldn't farking care.
And then some time later (though time is an elusive mistress in this den of aural delights), you are now sitting in a rocker on an old farm porch, watching as a storm rolls in, bending the fields with wind.
A neighbor, who uses a cane to walk, told police he was afraid to leave his home because he wasn’t sure if he would be attacked by the small alligator on his porch, the complaint said.
A porch has huge windows and gets plenty of solar gain.
A registration table will be set up on the porch of the Home Away Pet Spa.
Common combinations with porch
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: