PORCH in a Sentence

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For PORCH, below is one of 216 sentences:
Scarlett's eyes searched the crowd for Ashley, even while she made pleasant small talk with John Wilkes, but he was not on the porch.

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 Meanings and Examples of PORCH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
porch
 n.  covered and enclosed entrance to building; covered passage
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on the porch were neither slack nor soft.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  It was for this precise reason that Stuart and Brent were idling on the porch of Tara this April afternoon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  But they were loath to face their mother and they lingered on the porch of Tara, momentarily expecting Scarlett to give them an invitation to supper.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Why, you liar, I saw you with my own eyes sidle round the corner of the porch and squat in the cape jessamine bush by the wall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  When the twins left Scarlett standing on the porch of Tara and the last sound of flying hooves had died away, she went back to her chair like a sleepwalker.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  She had been on the front porch and he had ridden up the long avenue, dressed in gray broadcloth with a wide black cravat setting off his frilled shirt to perfection.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  Near the house, Scarlett was at the point of speaking again when she saw her mother in the dim shadows of the porch.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  Against their depredations, a small black sentinel was stationed on the front porch.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  On the porch steps stood John Wilkes, silver-haired, erect, radiating the quiet charm and hospitality that was as warm and never failing as the sun of Georgia summer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  Scarlett's eyes searched the crowd for Ashley, even while she made pleasant small talk with John Wilkes, but he was not on the porch.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  Aunt Pitty and Melanie, bonneted in their best, were on the porch with Wade and Prissy, ready for their weekly round of calls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  She had had to listen to enough of them when he sat on the porch at Tara in days gone by.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  The two girls looked an invitation to join them, but he went onto the front porch and, seating himself on the top step, dropped his head on his cupped palm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
14  And go out on the porch and do something for Phil.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
15  When the gentlemen joined the ladies on the front porch, the talk turned to war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence:
1  Coffee Gallery's screened in porch is a perfect place to cool off, relax, and talk for a while.
2  You have no right to preach to me, you neophyte, that have not passed the porch of life, and are absolutely unacquainted with its mysteries."
3  Rusted, broken-down cars in its yard, trash piled up on the porch, tar paper peeling from the roof, the shack was the picture of squalor.
4  Search for knowledge, read more, sit on your front porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs.
5  She huddled inside the porch as she rang the bell.
6  I suggest you take the front porch away.