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Recent Examples of sleeping porch
What was to be our living quarters was one minuscule bedroom with a bathroom, a single closet, and a small sleeping porch for me.
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Fannie Flagg, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2025
My parents’ house originally had two sleeping porches, both upstairs, one east and one west.
—David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
Residential builders soon caught on, and by the early 1900s, sleeping porches were appearing in homes from Minneapolis to Brooklyn, New York.
—Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2024
The second floor includes a sleeping porch and the home’s large primary bedroom, which includes a fireplace, steam shower, and whirlpool tub.
—Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 14 Mar. 2024
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Fannie Flagg, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2025
My parents’ house originally had two sleeping porches, both upstairs, one east and one west.
—David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
Residential builders soon caught on, and by the early 1900s, sleeping porches were appearing in homes from Minneapolis to Brooklyn, New York.
—Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2024
The second floor includes a sleeping porch and the home’s large primary bedroom, which includes a fireplace, steam shower, and whirlpool tub.
—Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 14 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sleeping porch
Noun
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From the south-facing sunroom, the hallway offers a 180-degree panoramic view of the home’s different spaces.—
Gala Mora,
Architectural Digest,
28 Apr. 2026
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Adding to its appeal, the kitchen opens to the glass enclosed sunroom.—
James Alexander,
Hartford Courant,
26 Apr. 2026
Noun
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For sunbathers visiting in the warmer months, Zefiro also rents out beach recliners for the day in its solarium.—
Michele Becker,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Apr. 2026
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The house then wraps around in back of the garage and extends out with a fabulous solarium that looks out over Auerfarm.—
James Alexander,
Hartford Courant,
19 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The setting can change: A sunporch, a park, a lawn, a beach all work.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2022
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After Alex’s death, a youth who was placed in the Bailey home a few months before the crash said that Bailey allegedly often drank and slept on the sunporch.—
Ginny Monk,
courant.com,
9 Mar. 2022
Noun
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There’s a three-story turret, a front porch the size of some one-bedrooms, and a private driveway (with a porte cochere, no less).—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
13 Jan. 2026
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Patients access the complex — created by merging a former law office, funeral home, car dealership and Dunkin’ Donuts — by driving around back where a porte cochere leads into a soaring atrium.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Its Edwardian façade and lantern-like corner portico have been carefully restored, a pleasing contrast to the immersive, maximalist interiors that 25hours pulls off so well.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Apr. 2026
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The architect revised plans slightly since the last commission meeting, removing stairs that would have extended from the ballroom’s south portico.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Sleeping porch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sleeping%20porch. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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