How to Use porthole in a Sentence

porthole

noun

• At the bottom, wires spew from a porthole to snake up and down and away.
  — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 12 July 2018
• Three times, the porthole cracked and water sprayed in.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
• In the restaurant, Djiba jumped out of a porthole and plunged into the ocean.
  — Elian Peltier, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2022
• In the restaurant, Mr. Djiba jumped out of a porthole and plunged into the ocean.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Rush, the pilot, usually sat at the back, away from the porthole.
  — John Branch, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
• The next morning those who could fit through the porthole crawled inside.
  — David Kelly, latimes.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• The third floor has a kitchen, a bedroom and a bathroom with a large porthole window.
  — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2022
• The Titan has a large porthole for viewing, a key feature and draw of the vessel.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2023
• The porthole window in the archway matched the circular opening in the crown.
  — Curbed, 2 Nov. 2022
• The coach was painted red and had black and gold lettering, and the windows were portholes.
  — Randy McCrory Vintage Bentonville, arkansasonline.com, 1 Feb. 2024
• One day, the workers dropped off a vintage Buick sedan with portholes along the front fenders.
  — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 28 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• One friend brought her coffee by pouring it through a tube into the porthole.
  — USA Today, 28 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Still, the view from the porthole during the famed dive was something to behold, at least for a few fleeting minutes.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The mine is spherical with a large, porthole-type aperture.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 Dec. 2020
• Blue parrotfish with pointy beaks weave in and out of ghostly portholes.
  — Erik Heinrich, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Everyone rushes to the big porthole windows to watch Anna get walked off the grounds.
  — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2021
• 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
• 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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