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Recent Examples of sleeping porch
What was to be our living quarters was one minuscule bedroom with a bathroom, a single closet, and a small sleeping porch for me.
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Fannie Flagg, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2025
My parents’ house originally had two sleeping porches, both upstairs, one east and one west.
—David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
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
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
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Fannie Flagg, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2025
My parents’ house originally had two sleeping porches, both upstairs, one east and one west.
—David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sleeping porch
Noun
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The homey rooms and common spaces—including a sunroom, screen porch, and parlor—are comfortable and cozy.—
Lydia Mansel,
Southern Living,
21 Feb. 2026
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The first floor unfolds into expansive formal rooms, former dining and sitting areas, a kitchen awaiting reconstruction, a library, sunroom, tearoom, den, vaults and multiple fireplaces.—
Brendel Clark,
Freep.com,
21 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Added by deFilippo is a fifth floor, with a pair of terraces on either side of a solarium and access to a rooftop deck.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
5 Mar. 2026
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While there are plenty of places to dine on-site—an open-air deck, a solarium, and an outdoor grotto—I’d recommend nabbing a reservation.—
Jacqueline Kehoe,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The setting can change: A sunporch, a park, a lawn, a beach all work.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2022
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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
Noun
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There’s a three-story turret, a front porch the size of some one-bedrooms, and a private driveway (with a porte cochere, no less).—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
13 Jan. 2026
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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
Noun
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Later that night, at the rehearsal dinner, Ann goes rogue during her toast to make these same points to a portico filled with Kennedys.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2026
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Bologna’s intricate porticos are an integral part of the city’s architectural heritage and identity.—
Kristin Braswell,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Sleeping porch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sleeping%20porch. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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