portico

At length, Colin unlocked the outside door to the portico and the security guards exited the building.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Bulletproof glass encasing the portico for his annual appearance with the Easter Bunny?

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026

Paper lanterns were laid across the courtyard, as they had been at a public viewing of Armani's body in Milan earlier this month, with the models walking under the portico.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025

Trump finally appeared on the portico of the Blue Room after 7 p.m. on Wednesday to welcome new interns to what the White House described as a “soiree” on the South Lawn.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025

The first thing Mr. Kapasi had noticed when he saw Mr. and Mrs. Das, standing with their children under the portico of the hotel, was that they were very young, perhaps not even thirty.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Its White City—a temporary demonstration of the grandeur of classical architecture, with Greek and Roman-style colonnades and porticoes arranged around a lake—had been designed by America’s greatest architects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

For months, the alleys, porticoes and campos reverberated with Italian, and even with Venetian dialect.

From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2020

Back in Trinidad, we park on a quiet street of red-tiled rooftops and shuttered porticoes, where we’ll sleep later.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2018

Its sagging porticoes can be removed, its roof replaced, the stucco on its exterior walls fixed or scraped off.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2017

Everywhere there were statues of lions—on top of pedestals, over doorways, on the porticoes of the largest buildings.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Washington is a city obsessed with projecting power through stone, and littered with overinflated federal buildings of white marble dressed up with colonnades, pediments and porticos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

At Bard, the weather drove us inside and out, from his office to benches and tables and porticos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2022

We could tell it was Federal style by the symmetrical design with porticos supported by Ionic columns, fanlights over the doors and keystone lintels.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2021

Once rioters were outside, D.C. police handled removing them from the external stairs, porticos and balconies of the Capitol.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2021

Clinging to the mountainside were dozens of multileveled palaces—a city of mansions—all with white-columned porticos, gilded terraces, and bronze braziers glowing with a thousand fires.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan