How to Use port of entry in a Sentence

port of entry

noun phrase
  • That accounts for people stopped at and between ports of entry.
    — Matthew Crowley, Louis Jacobson, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The justices are weighing whether migrants at ports of entry must be heard.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Mayorkas touted record seizures of fentanyl at ports of entry and efforts to do more.
    — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Migrants often wait for weeks or months in Mexico to present their case at a port of entry.
    — Karol Suarez, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The best true crime stories act as ports of entry to entire communities.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • There is a teasing view of Brownsville, Texas, an official port of entry.
    — Jay Root, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Those who do not make an asylum request at a legal port of entry will be barred from receiving asylum.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The drivers are used to shuttling travelers to the port of entry and waiting for their return.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
  • And this time specific to asylum seekers between ports of entry.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024
  • The duration of the visa-free period and specific rules vary by port of entry.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Under the proposal, migrants could still apply at ports of entry.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2024
  • However, seizures of hard drugs like fentanyl are on the rise, especially at ports of entry.
    — The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2024
  • This was one of their departure numbers — a maiden voyage of a work leading to future ports of entry.
    — Colin Fleming, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2025
  • That said, there are also issues involving ports of entry and workers who need to cross the border daily.
    — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The only people getting in without vetting are those who cross the border between ports of entry.
    — Agustina Vergara Cid, Orange County Register, 29 Dec. 2024
  • The border town of Laredo is one of Texas’ largest ports of entry from Mexico.
    — David K. Li, NBC news, 12 May 2026
  • American officials have closed southern ports of entry to livestock trade.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026
  • When combined with encounters at ports of entry, that number hit 9,100.
    — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The nation’s busiest port of entry celebrated that distinction for the 26th year in a row.
    — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Billions worth of goods are imported daily from Mexico through the ports of entry, with fresh produce the largest share.
    — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The new port of entry is expected to create jobs and bring in goods from construction materials to produce.
    — David Ulloa Jr, AZCentral.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Carla and Jose, who traveled from Venezuela with their two children, were instructed to show up at the port of entry to speak with agents about their case.
    — Ally Schweitzer, NPR, 6 May 2024
  • Although there was another cruise ship at the docks, Colombo felt like an excitingly off-the-radar port of entry, not at all overrun.
    — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The vast majority of fentanyl seizures at the border happen at ports of entry, and much of it is through Arizona’s border crossings.
    — Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The proclamation suspended entry to people crossing between ports of entry and barred them from seeking asylum.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • In early 2023, on the day they were scheduled to show up at the port of entry to request asylum, an intense storm turned dirt roads to muddy rivers.
    — Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2025
  • The notice describes the area as one where Border Patrol agents have seen high numbers of people crossing between ports of entry.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 5 Oct. 2023
  • It was completed in 1879 near the waterfront in what was, at the time, one of America’s largest ports of entry.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The bust comes just days before Thanksgiving, marking one of the larger methamphetamine seizures at the South Texas port of entry this year.
    — Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 25 Nov. 2025
  • On the southwestern tip, Galle is one of three Sri Lankan ports of entry but the only port with facilities for private yachts.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 30 May 2025

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