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Recent Examples of sleeping porch
This home has three bedrooms and a sleeping porch, two and a half bathrooms, a fireplace, a lawn, and deck.
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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
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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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
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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My grandmother positions a chair in front of the windows of our sunroom, which look out onto the neighboring hills dotted with bungalows, Tuscan pines and tall palm trees.—
Zinzi Clemmons,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
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Tangerines Citrus trees are a favorite of at home fruit farmers, and tangerines are a pretty addition to a sunroom.—
Heather Bien,
The Spruce,
7 June 2026
Noun
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For sunbathers visiting in the warmer months, Zefiro also rents out beach recliners for the day in its solarium.—
Michele Becker,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Apr. 2026
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The house then wraps around in back of the garage and extends out with a fabulous solarium that looks out over Auerfarm.—
James Alexander,
Hartford Courant,
19 Apr. 2026
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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
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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
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But even without Trump ordering up porticoes and colonnades, the architects would likely have looked backward to look forward.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
8 June 2026
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“Sleeping porch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sleeping%20porch. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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