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Discover LudwigThe word "porch" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it for a platform at the entrance of a house or building, usually open to the outdoors. For example, "We spent the evening sitting on the porch and enjoying the view of the sunset".
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porch
noun
A covered and enclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof.
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After Shad mentioned the words "gay" and "marriage," we heard Peter's wife hiss, "Don't talk to those people!" Peter rolled his eyes slightly, stepped out onto the porch, and shut the door behind him.
She likes to sit on her porch, to gossip, to offer around baklava and the jam she makes.
Then I got lucky: an apartment for rent needed its porch painted.
These one-room wooden cabins come with a table, benches, bunkbeds and a screened porch – a step up from a tent, but still pretty basic.
It sounds like they've been sitting on the porch together, attempting to sum up their lives.
Now McGuire said she can see nine oil wells from her back porch, and there are dozens of RVs parked outside town, full of oil workers.
Standing on the hotel's seafront porch Louis Mueller, an American sculptor, takes in the view.
"Mom bathed us on the back porch in a No 2 washtub.
Andrew Johns looks at him like you would a suspicious package on your porch.
They literally shot him off the porch," he told the Guardian.
One image shows a colonnaded porch filled with blood-stained blankets, clothes and mattresses.
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