Sentence examples for porch sitting from inspiring English sources

Americans, always enamored of mobility, grew to prefer motoring to porch sitting.

There is a photograph of my father as a young man on the front porch, sitting with his friends, my mother and a bowl of jollof rice.

By the mid-19th century, the country was in full porch mode; according to Ierley, some houses had four or five porches -- "front porch, side porch, back porch, upstairs porch, children's porch, sitting porch, eating porch, garden porch, servants' porch" among them.

Good old-fashioned porch sitting is one of the Shack Up Inn's primary pastimes, so owners go out of their way to keep the grounds low-key.

But the house is still relatively secluded, a sprawling, airy place, with porches, sitting areas, and bedroom after bedroom Eliot was the youngest of six children with great granite boulders in the yard outside.

"You go back to the front porch to sitting and listening to grandparents and great-grandparents".

But rather than preparing an organized series of reflections, he would simply ask the meditators to leave written questions in a basket in the porch; then, sitting beside the table at the front, with the black Buddha blissfully equanimous behind, he pulled them out one by one and tried to answer them.

Adding to the surreality, boats were flung all over the place some stacked in unsafe-looking piles, others smashed against porches or sitting in yards.

By John Malcolm Brinnin The New Yorker, June 30 , 1951P. 28 When my porch-sitting spirit will not sit, View Article By Miranda Carter By Amos Barshad By Jia Tolentino By Doreen St. Félix.

By John Malcolm Brinnin The New Yorker, June 30 , 1951P. 28 When my porch-sitting spirit will not sit, View Article By Rebecca Mead By Anthony Lane By Alan Burdick By Atul Gawande.

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