carport

Example Sentences

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The home has an attached two-car garage, a garage for a golf cart, and a detached four-car garage with a carport.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

Authorities say the fire started in the carport after Hales, 46, failed to turn off a propane tank to a stove she was using to make tortilla chips and left it on overnight.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

The term applies to apartment buildings built decades ago in which the bottom floor has room for a carport, garage or retail shop.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

On Friday morning, he saw his corrugated iron carport being lifted out of the ground and tipped into an area of woodland.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2025

When we drove into his carport, his wife stood in the shadows beside the house.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin