How to Use sleeping porch in a Sentence

sleeping porch

noun
  • At dusk, an inset sleeping porch on the third floor glows like a lantern above the kitchen and living room.
    Sarah Medford, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2022
  • There are four bedrooms and a sleeping porch on the second floor and three more bedrooms on the top level.
    Kathy Orton, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Above the sunroom is a sleeping porch that Boss uses for an office.
    Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • An upstairs patio at the back end of the house is used as a sleeping porch and the front upstairs patio has views of Swiss Avenue.
    Dallas News, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Some even had sleeping porches across the back for comfort on hot summer nights.
    Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 18 Jan. 2020
  • In addition to the 75-foot lap pool and spa, Jobe Corral built an outdoor kitchen, a dining room, and a screened sleeping porch.
    Lauren Jones, House Beautiful, 1 July 2021
  • One of the bonus spaces was previously a sleeping porch, Oliver said.
    Dallas News, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The second floor includes a sleeping porch and two large bedroom suites plus two additional bedrooms and two baths.
    Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, Baltimore Sun, 1 Sep. 2022
  • There are balconies, arcades, terraces, a loggia (half-open hallway), a courtyard and a sleeping porch off the owner’s bedroom.
    Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The house features a vaulted main living space with fireplace and water views, eat-in kitchen with butler's pantry, primary suite with French doors to the hot tub and pool, and sleeping porch with two hanging beds.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The third-floor Solarium was originally built as a summer sleeping porch in the early 1900s.
    Shawn McCreesh, Town & Country, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Upstairs, a sleeping porch off a bedroom was converted into a sitting room and bathroom to create a master suite.
    Julie Lasky, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Inside the house, many period features remain, including parquet flooring, leaded-glass windows and a sleeping porch on the second floor.
    Kathy Orton, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Free-air enthusiasts with the morning cold plunge habit admit a warning ferver, tent houses are deserted, sleeping porches scorned, and among the denizens of unheated homes it is covertly rumored there have been no baths these two days past.
    sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Jan. 2018

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