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Sentence count:35+1 Only show simple sentencesPosted:2017-04-09Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: torticollisportionportierereportingsupportiveapportionapportionedproportionMeaning: ['pɔrtɪkəʊ /'pɔːt-]  n. a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area. 
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1. Guests gathered under the classical portico of the hotel.
2. A large portico provides a suitably impressive entrance to the chapel.
3. She sat with her back against the portico.
4. He aimed his ball at the portico and managed to hit the pumpkin with it.
5. Its portico of six Corinthian columns exists, as does the finely sculptured frieze of its entablature.
6. There was a large portico and covered walk leading up to double doors that shushed open as I approached.
7. Under the portico, bodies are sprawled, a tangle of limbs of malnourished young men.
8. There was a portico, generally of wood, with posts supporting beams, and decoration was in terracotta.
9. To their right was an old portico, its row of pointed arches almost like a church.
10. She stood in the portico of his chamber and gravely allowed him to admire her.
11. Its Victorian replacement, with long drives and a portico of columns, has fallen into disuse.
12. The gateway and its portico had openings all around.
13. Different types of architecture require different portico spaces are illustrated as different spatial contents.
14. The atrium, which had a columned portico all around, extended under all the medieval edifice and had at its centre a cistern.
15. There are two rows around the palace portico a magnificent towering, majestic momentum.
16. And the threshold gate next to the portico facing the temple was one rod deep.
17. Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them.
18. Portico Colonnaded porch or entrance to a structure[sentencedict.com], or a covered walkway supported by regularly spaced columns.
19. He gave a six-minute inaugural speech from the South Portico before a tightly packed audience.
20. The temple itself had a large classical cella, with a solid columned portico which served as the pediment.
21. Leading from the Library, the visitor enters a circular building, about 45 yards in diameter with an outer Ionic portico.
22. Museum chiefs say the marble statue should be removed from the portico of the gallery and replaced by a replica.
23. It was Spurgeon who insisted on a classical design by which he meant a rectangular building with portico and six Corinthian columns.
24. The building looks like a library or similar public building with its classical portico and columns with Ionic capitals.
25. And after his elevation to the papacy[Sentence dictionary], he built a colonnaded portico out of his income as cardinal.
26. A gravel drive swept between manicured lawns to the portico of the imposing Edwardian house.
27. When he left, Midge and Stevie stayed in the house and Chris came out under the portico alone.
28. For many years the symbolic entrance under the massive portico (with its capitals fastidiously copied from the Temple of Apollo at Bassae) was shut.
29. The only exception was an apse on the axis of the portico, demolished in the 1890s to be replaced by industrial sheds undistinguished in function and form.
30. Jn. 10:23 And Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of Solomon.
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