carport
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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
Mahon said Bodhi had started to turn up at her house just after Christmas and she had noticed he was sleeping in a carport.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
Three cars were burning, and the carport area, where officials believe the blaze started, was completely engulfed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026
This week, the livestock was gone, and a black tarpaulin had been erected around the carport and the entrance to her house.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025
The humble home she lived in sounds so different from Thaya Jaan’s three-story house with its green gates, carport, manicured lawn filled with fruit trees and flowers, and my favorite veranda.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
They have flimsy supports on the ground story that prop up carports, garages or storefronts and can snap when shaken from side to side in an earthquake.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2025
For a moment, she got up and strolled to the kitchen, passing her daughter’s turtle, who had survived the heavy smoke that filled the apartment when the carports outside her unit were burning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025
These are apartment buildings with carports, garages or retail stores on the ground floor, with flimsy supports that can collapse in the side-to-side shaking of an earthquake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2024
You will also need to check with your homeowners association and read your deed restrictions to ensure that carports are allowed in your specific community.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
In some of the front yards there were aluminum carports, and bright aluminum awnings had been installed on one or two of the buildings.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
