Example Sentences

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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