Sentence examples for a porte from inspiring English sources

I'm safe and sound inside the taxi, which delivers me to one of the resort's front doors -- conveniently a porte cochère.

CONNECTICUT: 220 Farist Road, Fairfield A six-bedroom four-bath 115-year-old home with a wraparound porch, seven fireplaces with Italian tile surrounds, front and back staircases, a third-floor in-law apartment, central air-conditioning and a porte coch? on a half acre.

To enter, one must pass through a porte-cochere and swing open metal French doors.

For anyone wondering why the Oradell train station suddenly gained a porte-cochere, Steve Koenig has the answer.

"It is also very inviting because you drive into the arms of the building under a porte-cochere".

New windows will be installed, and a porte-cochere will be added to the entrance facing Carleton Avenue.

They focus on the point of entry, under a porte-cochere that originally sheltered people arriving by car.

Cross & Cross designed it in a sensible-shoe Georgian red brick and limestone, with a porte-cochere on Sutton Place and a vast garden on the river side.

Jones, a shipping merchant, but the Arts and Crafts-style house seems better suited to the Three Bears — if their tale included a porte-cochere and a pavilion.

Regular guests will arrive under a porte-cochere about 20 yards from the edge of the harbor and enter a vaulted lobby.

Built in 1889 to replace a wooden chapel burned down by a spark from a passing locomotive, the imposing Gothic Revival building has an admirable clock tower that also serves as a porte-cochère.