Thesaurus results for SLEEPING PORCH

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 This home has three bedrooms and a sleeping porch, two and a half bathrooms, a fireplace, a lawn, and deck. — Kristine Hansen, Architectural Digest, 1 Apr. 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 See All Example Sentences for sleeping porch

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Noun

His sunroom is decorated in a coastal farmhouse style and the deck is full off nautical and beach-themed items.

— Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2026
Newer additions include a sunroom, home theater, gym, smart-home technology, and a glass elevator.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 July 2026

Definition of sunroom

Noun

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

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