How to Use carport in a Sentence

carport

noun
Definition of carportnext
  • There’s also a basement and a three-car carport, as well as a three-car garage.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The property’s structures are sited upslope: the main house along with a pool house and carport, both with artist studios.
    — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The doors are closed, and the van leaves the carport at 3:09 p.m.
    — Campbell Robertson, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Ben got rid of the carport attached to the front of the house.
    — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The home can host many, as there is room for 15 cars in the carport.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 22 July 2022
  • The second bedroom faces the front of the house, with a view of the carport and grounds.
    — Michael Kaminer, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The fridge was moved to the top of a nearby driveway, inside a carport.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Dec. 2021
  • On the lot are a lawn, a fenced patio with fire pit, two garages, and a carport for a boat or RV.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Three of the teens knocked on the door at Penton’s house, and her son came out of a side door into the carport.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 19 Dec. 2020
  • No room is left untouched by Nat’s art, which spills out onto the carport, the fence and the yard.
    — Michelle Matthews | [email protected], al, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Parking is in a two-car garage on the basement level, and in a carport on the side.
    — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The brother said the victim would often hang out in the carport.
    — Rosana Hughes, ajc, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Crews arrived to find two cars engulfed in flames in the carport.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2023
  • There was a car in the driveway under a carport throughout the fire.
    — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2018
  • In addition, the home is equipped with a four-car carport.
    — Bay Area Home Report, The Mercury News, 6 June 2024
  • The home also comes equipped with a garage that includes a two car carport.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 26 Feb. 2020
  • For those groups that are braced to the house wall, attach the frames to stakes and extend braces to the siding or to a carport post.
    — David M. Swartwout, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2022
  • That night, Doug came home from the Pizza Inn around 1 a.m. to find Debbie dead in the carport, stabbed 17 times.
    — Sarah Viren, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Wei leads me into her tiny kitchen, roughly the size of a small carport.
    — Eddie Lin, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The west end is mostly brick and a carport composes the east side.
    — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The main house is adjacent to a three-car carport and a guest house with a kitchenette.
    — Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2020
  • The shooting happened in the carport of his mother's home.
    — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The force of the blast also damaged the carport of an adjacent home.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The property includes a three-car garage, a golf cart garage and a carport for a boat.
    — Dallas News, 18 July 2021
  • Then, sometime before 8 p.m., there was a knock on the carport door.
    — Chelsea Curtis, The Arizona Republic, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Alice went out back, to the small patch of green buttressed on the other end by their carport.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 4 May 2021
  • Flames then spread from the car to the carport to the mobile home, displacing the lone resident.
    — Alex Riggins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 July 2018
  • One of the victims was found dead in the carport; another was found in a bedroom.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 9 July 2018
  • And rather than a garage, the Sondern-Adler House has a carport that's covered by a cantilevered roof.
    — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The light in the carport ceiling clicked on, from the motion detector.
    — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024

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