How To Use stoep In A Sentence
- For years, before I had my stoep enclosed with a roof, swallows, swifts and European starlings nested under the eaves.
- When we had finished our sweetmeats or fruit she would accompany us to the stoep, bidding us thank our mother for her gift and sending quaint, old-fashioned messages to her and the Father. Then she would turn and enter the house, closing the door behind, so that it became once more a place of mystery.
- Meanwhile, back on the stoep, both men are rooted to their chairs in what appears to be a catatonic stupor.
- Supported by timber trusses and arboreal columns, the restaurant's great monopitch roof recalls the traditional African stoep or veranda.
- In South Africa a stoep is a raised veranda on which you sit and watch the world go by.
- In the modern houses the stoep is a shady, pillared, covered gallery, which in hot weather becomes the general living-room of the family. Here, There and Everywhere
- When we had finished our sweetmeats or fruit she would accompany us to the stoep, bidding us thank our mother for her gift and sending quaint, old-fashioned messages to her and the Father. Then she would turn and enter the house, closing the door behind, so that it became once more a place of mystery.
- The Zulu constable forced the pale white man facedown onto the stoep. Let The Dead Lie
- Shabalala crept forward but stopped when the short man from the stoep appeared in the space between the storehouse and the clinic. Let The Dead Lie
- The burly burgher, in round-crowned flaunderish hat with brim of vast circumference, in portly gaberdine and bulbous multiplicity of breeches, sat on his "stoep" and smoked his pipe in lordly silence; nor did it ever enter his brain that the active, restless Yankee, whom he saw through his half-shut eyes worrying about in dog day heat, ever intent on the main chance, was one day to usurp control over these goodly Dutch domains. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
