This page shows Porthole in 10 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like window or port. Useful when writing or proofreading a text.
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Porthole meaning
- A gunport; an opening in the hull of a ship through which cannons are fired.
- A circular window set in the hull of a ship.
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The cloudless atmosphere becomes a porthole to the void, through which warmth flows like air through a porch screen.
In black-and-white videos, you’ll hear new perspectives from the subjects with the curving porthole-like shapes.
Photographer Douglas Croft and whale watcher Kate Cummings took the photo from the porthole of a nearby boat.
Other outfits from the late ’60s are rather less unisex, like a “porthole” dress with cutout nipples.
When it began to rain, I paused and looked through the porthole.
Source: Tatoeba #12823467 by sundown · CC BY 2.0 FR
Out of my window-seat porthole is a vision of blue, white and green; a cloudless sky, snow-capped mountains, the greens of bush and pasture, the blues of river and sea.
They saw the waves through the porthole.
Source: Tatoeba #8985130 by mccarras · CC BY 2.0 FR
A shark swam past the porthole.
Source: Tatoeba #12467700 by Miktsoanit · CC0 1.0
Why not look out the porthole?
Source: Tatoeba #12467702 by Miktsoanit · CC0 1.0
Tom looked out the porthole.
Source: Tatoeba #12467699 by Miktsoanit · CC0 1.0
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