porthole

How To Use porthole In A Sentence

• The bow is equally imposing, with two extremely large anchors still in their hawsers and a great deal of machinery and portholes to see.
• Like a log of wood I crossed the Cabin, fetching up at last against Traveller, whose strong hand propelled me to the porthole frame. ANTI-ICE
• Behind the forward capstan, the wreck becomes an unidentifiable mess but it can be seen that the superstructure had rounded windows rather than portholes.
• There she has remained since as a show, and moreover as a sort of dining-hall for jovial parties from the city; one of which would seem to be on board this afternoon, to judge from the flags which bedizen the masts, the sounds of revelry and savory steams which issue from those windows which once were portholes, and the rushing to and fro along the river brink, and across that lucky bridge, of white-aproned waiters from the neighboring Pelican Inn. A great feast is evidently toward, for with those white-aproned waiters are gay serving men, wearing on their shoulders the city-badge. Westward Ho!
• I got a fitful two hours of sleep, tried to read and write, and at the first breath of light outside the portholes, went up on deck to watch the sun rise.
• Some divers are still keen ‘brass’ hunters - and many a living room in East Yorkshire features lovingly-polished binnacles and portholes, taken off in an underwater expedition.
• It has portholes, pine panelling and boarded floors, and there is an oil-fired boiler. Times, Sunday Times
• The angry water rushed by outside the portholes, surging up on deck.
• She could see the moonlit water outside her porthole and hear the footsteps and orders called on the deck as the ship was preparing to set sail.
• Everything feels dinky and a certain pre-war atmosphere prevails as we huddle inside, watching the rain lash at the portholes.