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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 home features a cathedral-style sunroom, 50-foot deck and gourmet kitchen, the listing says.—
Francesca Pica,
jsonline.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Built in 1853 and later expanded, the main five-bedroom Federalist-style home includes crown molding, wood floors, a sunroom, an eat-in country kitchen, and formal dining rooms.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The grand 43-foot-wide mansion at 323 West 80th Street was once a single-family home — 21 rooms spread across 11,000 square feet with a gymnasium and a solarium, a fountain and a loggia.—
Will Ellis,
Curbed,
6 Jan. 2026
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While the guest rooms are fairly simple (but comfortable), the sun terrace outside the L' Ambiance restaurant, views of the turquoise River Aare, and the spa—complete with a solarium, sauna, and steam bath—make this a property worth experiencing for a night or two.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Dec. 2025
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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Photographs of Hardy and Darc under the portico and inside the main entrance hall are still admired today.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
23 Dec. 2025
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Guests will enter through a cantilevered teakwood portico framed by a vertical garden of wisteria and climbing roses.—
Regan Stephens,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Sleeping porch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sleeping%20porch. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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