Sentence examples for porch up from inspiring English sources

IN THE hills around Paintsville, a small town in eastern Kentucky's Appalachian region, some of the nicer houses have paths that wind from the front porch up to a gate.

The 17 rooms -- all with TV's, VCR's and fridges -- range from small but cute with a queen bed plus private bath and porch, up to a full apartment with a kitchen and three private decks.

Dom, leaning on his car, asks Malcolm to carry messages to Nakia (Zoe Kravitz), who happens to be studying for her GED on a front porch up the street.

To the north, in Litchfield County, front porches are part of a different aesthetic, that of the traditional farmhouse: "Porches up here tend to be used more as a place to relax, enjoy the view, rather than the neighborly porch where people can walk by," said Patrick Mulberry, an architect of Cornwall.

The backs of the houses -- typical Brooklyn Heights brownstones and apartment buildings -- vary widely and wonderfully: mid-19th-century Gothic-style porches; up-close views of an Art Deco apartment house; and the rear of the Nitardy house with its broad two-story glazed porch, a backyard Lever House facade.

A ladder on the second-floor porch leads up to an observation tower with treetop and ocean views.

He passed a half-finished side porch propped up on brick piers; men in hard hats were pacing the blond floorboards.

This customer using Digital Life programmed the platform, used a sensor device to detect motion on his front porch, set up a dummy package there and waited.

In these poems Ms. Kasischke is the quiet but rapt girl who broods on the twilit porch, soaking up the dark murmurs of Leonard Cohen or memorizing Emily Dickinson.

When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays found at Pottery Barn, and serve iced beverages.

Dr. Bakal noted that on summer evenings, his men's book group has been known to sit on a back porch, light up cigars and have a few beers.