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    Use "porthole" in a sentence

    porthole example sentences

    porthole


    1. Tig couldn’t help things by being at the terminal, so he shared Parker’s porthole and watched the wreckage pass by on the junk’s port side


    2. Burn lowered Audacity down slowly on her own gravity while beads of acrid looking liquid condensed on the porthole


    3. The porthole is above the waterline; all I can see is the sea stretching away to the horizon


    4. Holding it out for me, he turns and walks over to the porthole, placing his hands either side of the window, he stands apparently looking out at the sea


    5. Tears pricking in my eyes, I look across at Berndt, still standing by the porthole


    6. Rayne had been looking out the porthole by her seat as they were soaring to the planet below


    7. Duncan could see out a porthole that a group of men were waiting for them beyond a long walkway


    8. After twenty years of evolution in club land white stilettos and plastic handbags may have given way to belly button piercings and porthole dresses, but the ritual stand-off between groups of rhythmic girls and leery boys is alive and well


    9. His vision was contracting to a small porthole


    10. There are two round porthole windows, which have been covered over with rose pattern curtains

    11. More porthole windows, uncovered this time


    12. Spitting venom into the face of kindness, shuffling away, unable to take his eyes off the porthole window to the main mortuary room, Billy had lashed out one more time and spurned this small moment of human kindness


    13. thrill shot through me as I discovered a porthole covered with


    14. glued to the porthole while the Belle vibrated into reverse


    15. Afterwards my porthole was on the wrong side


    16. Trevor was already back at his computer and stabbed at a key to shut the Cloud’s porthole


    17. He returned to the Hollywood, grabbed the first piece of debris he came across and flung it at the Cloud’s porthole, expecting it to pass straight through


    18. Close the airlock and open the porthole


    19. The two gazed out the porthole at the passing stars


    20. Bracing his arms on either side of the porthole, Cloud inhaled

    21. It was a tremendous challenge to envision myself into a time and place where I’d never been, nor seen except through the porthole of pictographic and literary consumerism


    22. There was no other way out of the room, not even an opening porthole


    23. Soon breathing air from her own reserve tank, she gave a thumbs up signal to the doctor watching her through a glass porthole


    24. Major Sweeny’s face popped up nearly at once in front of a second porthole, his mouth full and a sandwich in his hands


    25. Monty looked out the porthole beside his seat


    26. The valley was narrow and the mountains rose steeply, so that he had to hunch down and strain to see the misted peaks through the porthole


    27. As he looked round he saw a porthole and peered through


    28. As he looked through a porthole it became obvious that they were moving


    29. ?” said a badly shaken Morgan and he rushed to the porthole to


    30. The ship righted and they took turns at the porthole

    31. Henriette poked her head through the porthole


    32. The Bretons couldn't get the porthole shut


    33. There was a series of landing lights around the porthole entrance to 7B


    34. their porthole and could see nothing but the planet rotating below them


    35. But both the language and my porthole isolated me from them


    36. The cabin had a small porthole but she


    37. Even Leslie shifted uncomfortably as she pressed her face to a porthole


    38. Celeste ran her palm over her side window, making a porthole to see out


    39. He slung the shotgun across his back, bent and stepped through the porthole, gripped the rope in one hand, and slid swiftly down it


    40. At the same time, its right arm telescoped forward, and its clawed hand smashed through the capsule’s rear porthole

    41. A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the Orion had run back to Toulon


    42. Out of the porthole in front of him he could see the distant line of cliffs


    43. For the boat was now nosing out of the fog, timber by white timber, porthole by porthole, and stood as if held fast by the fog, at the end of the pier, its gangplank let down


    44. "Knife? Aye, aye," cried Queequeg, and seizing the carpenter's heavy hatchet, he leaned out of a porthole, and steel to iron, began slashing at the largest fluke-chains


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    Synonyms for "porthole"

    embrasure port porthole

    "porthole" definitions

    a window in a ship or airplane


    an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through