How to Use porthole in a Sentence
porthole
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At the bottom, wires spew from a porthole to snake up and down and away.
—Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 12 July 2018
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Three times, the porthole cracked and water sprayed in.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
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In the restaurant, Djiba jumped out of a porthole and plunged into the ocean.
—Elian Peltier, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2022
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In the restaurant, Mr. Djiba jumped out of a porthole and plunged into the ocean.
—Elian Peltier, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2022
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The round portholes of the spacecraft play in the round pull tab on the back of the boot and the round cutouts in the outsole show the gold plate underneath.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2019
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The new towers will be blue and white, with a porthole window and a wrap-around deck.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 16 June 2017
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Rush, the pilot, usually sat at the back, away from the porthole.
—John Branch, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
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The next morning those who could fit through the porthole crawled inside.
—David Kelly, latimes.com, 18 Sep. 2017
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The third floor has a kitchen, a bedroom and a bathroom with a large porthole window.
—Nancy Keates, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2022
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The Titan has a large porthole for viewing, a key feature and draw of the vessel.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2023
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The porthole window in the archway matched the circular opening in the crown.
—Curbed, 2 Nov. 2022
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One day, the workers dropped off a vintage Buick sedan with portholes along the front fenders.
—John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 28 Apr. 2020
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Built in the mid-1940s, the home has a unique design with round windows that resemble a ship’s portholes.
—Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 15 Nov. 2019
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Staring out the porthole, Piccard and Kipfer became the first humans to see the curvature of the Earth.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
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One friend brought her coffee by pouring it through a tube into the porthole.
—USA Today, 28 Sep. 2021
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As the ship was starting to turn upside down, Coburn and a handful of men pulled themselves up through a side porthole.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2023
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On the second floor stands a book wall with a porthole carved into it; nearby is a walk-through tunnel.
—Lesley M. M. Blume, New York Times, 11 May 2017
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One day, his father was pouring a drink between takes and Dreyfuss hurled the glass through a porthole.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
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The commander-in-chief warily eyed the chalk markings on the floor, and the canvas sheets decked out like ship portholes.
—Simon Parkin, Time, 29 Jan. 2020
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The 35mm projectors stand more than 5 feet tall, with the lenses aimed out small portholes like cannon from a ship.
—Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2018
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The mine is spherical with a large, porthole-type aperture.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 Dec. 2020
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Blue parrotfish with pointy beaks weave in and out of ghostly portholes.
—Erik Heinrich, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
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Within a few minutes, Titan would be absorbed in darkness, and the porthole would be a ring of black.
—John Branch, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
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The fact that there are still many glass portholes intact amazed me, and really impressed me just how durable this ship is.
—Gina Martinez, Time, 22 Aug. 2019
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When Larry and Bo first moved to the anchorage, the Galilee’s portholes would have only just stopped glowing.
—Joe Kloc, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
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Everyone rushes to the big porthole windows to watch Anna get walked off the grounds.
—Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2021
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People will be able to peer through portholes in parts of the substation’s walls to see its inner workings.
—Barbara Sadick, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2017
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The curving walls are set with portholes, and the space is cut into three floors by interlaced fabric bands.
—Vince Beiser, WIRED, 23 Oct. 2007
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On the lower level, full-height glass sliders open a lounge/art studio to a deck just above the water, and, upstairs, a large porthole over the kitchen sink winks at classic maritime design.
—Mark David, Robb Report, 20 Sep. 2023
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Otherwise, their only natural light beams through the ship’s tiny portholes.
—Jake Offenhartz, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2023
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