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Meanings of front stoop in English

Small staircase and platform on an entrance.

Synonyms
Examples for "stoop"
Examples for "stoop"
1
On the stoop, Brendan rang the doorbell several times, with no answer.
The unseen
2
I hate the mechanical labour; I hate to stoop and sit still.
Villette
3
They would stoop and go in under and pick up the grain.
Old Rail Fence Corners: The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History
4
The candidate was too busy talking about hope to stoop to refutation.
Game change: obama and the clintons, mccain and palin, and the r...
5
When I stoop, stoop; when I crawl, crawl; when I run, run.
Barlasch of the Guard
1
The entrance stairs on the outside and the entrance hall were paved with imitation marble of pink and white.
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
2
If I had, it hadn't registered, but I said, "Just a draught from the entrance stairs, no doubt."
Drood: a novel
3
On the shoulders of his Swordmaster at the top of the entrance stairs, Manford raised his arms in a signal.
Sisterhood of Dune
4
When I arrived Percy Blythe was waiting for me, pretending to pull weeds from a plant pot by the entrance stairs.
The distant hours
5
We drove up the entrance stairs and slammed the radiator into a concrete wall right across from a giant bronze statue of Hank Williams, Sr.
Monster Hunter Vendetta
Usage of front stoop in English
1
I'd heard the front stoop creak, and instantly knew who had come.
Nemesis
2
She is now sitting on the front stoop of the golden whence.
Remarks
3
On the front stoop were George and his brother and the preacher.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
4
It was the one with the light on over the front stoop.
Three to get deadly and four to score
5
Mia walked directly to the front stoop, pushed the doorbell, and waited.
The capitol game
6
On the front stoop of the cleaners sat a few potted plants.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
7
And nobody should've been standing on the front stoop, but someone was.
After midnight
8
Then Ben darted across the way to the front stoop of number 1313.
Watch them die
9
She pondered on the front stoop, looking this way and that.
Happiness key
10
They stood on the front stoop, breathing in great gulps of fresh air.
The passage
11
And then he went out and sat on the front stoop.
Golden Stories / A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost...
12
Mr. Reed sat comfortably on the front stoop smoking and reading.
A Little Girl in Old New York
13
Morning sun filtered through the trees, spotting the front stoop, the gray-painted wood.
Dark pursuit
14
I left them on the dry concrete of the front stoop.
After midnight
15
Hannah Heath was sitting on the front stoop with her knitting.
Marcia Schuyler
16
And as they were talking, there came a noise at the front stoop.
Friendly Fairies
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Front stoop through the time
Front stoop across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common