carport
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Origin of 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
Parked in the carport was a black Ford Raptor SUV — which appeared to have been equipped with armor in the doors and dark-tinted windows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2026
Missy Chapman said, taking cover in her neighbor’s carport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2025
The three of us are all together on the steps when Dell comes in from the carport.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
She said the problems became so bad that the owner of her building had to install gates on the building carports to keep people away.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2025
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
In 2013, San Francisco ordered retrofits of “soft-story” apartments, which are vulnerable to collapse because their upper floors are held up by flimsy, skinny columns on top of carports or garages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2024
The address that Patrolman Mancuso was looking for was the tiniest structure on the block, aside from the carports, a Lilliput of the eighties.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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