How to Use porter in a Sentence

porter

noun
  • Dark beers like porters or stouts will not show the green at all.
    — Erin Cavoto, Country Living, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Net-a-porter was not the worst offender.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Movie nights under starry skies amid the heaters call for porter.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Feb. 2022
  • This was not just another camera, though the porters did not know that yet.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • He got married, had kids, and worked a job as a porter at Broadway theaters.
    — Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The truck rumbled off, and the porter returned to cleaning the sidewalk.
    — New York Times, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The fire was started by a porter who tried to throw a bucket of hot coals overboard into a stiff wind.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The porter nodded, swung his hose around and gave the truck’s windshield a thorough washing.
    — New York Times, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The five who trekked back to base camp were Nepali porters and guides, Mahato said.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
  • That means a raise of $9,000 for building porters by the end of the contract.
    — Doug Williams, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The folks at Evening Sky have a simple, refreshing porter on the menu.
    — Hartford Courant, 19 Oct. 2022
  • People jostled across the steps as porters maneuvered carts and tourists paused for photos.
    — Vic O'Sullivan, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The porters who work in this gorilla habitat volunteer their time.
    — Alisandra Puliti, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Men can enter the space – but only to buy goods, to work as porters or guards or to provide the women with cups of milky chai.
    — Story, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
  • When it’s paired with a chocolatey porter, the combination is divine.
    — Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • With models trailed by porters toting handfuls of monogrammed luggage?
    — Rosie Jarman, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Amaya works as a day porter at a medical center in Falls Church, Va.
    — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Additionally, tens of thousands of porters are needed to carry loads to the base camps.
    — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 7 May 2023
  • Now the company just has to replicate that growth at Net-a-porter and off-price, which includes Yoox.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2025
  • My father was a Billingsgate Fish Market porter and a big gambler.
    — Ruthie Rogers, Air Mail, 14 Mar. 2026
  • But porters were able to supplement their wages with tips, which helped propel their families toward the middle class.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2026
  • But porters were able to supplement their wages with tips, which helped propel their families toward the middle class.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2026
  • For a wedge salad, try an IPA, a porter or a stout, but not an imperial one.
    — Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Among their first offerings was a pineapple saison, a cedar IPA and a red porter.
    — Keith Pandolfi, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The porter, Curtis Jordan, wound up facing two charges, while the cops went on to serve decades on the police force.
    — Samuel G. Freedman, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
  • The shelters were once primarily used for summer hiking trips, when porters stocked them with food, drinks, and supplies.
    — Scott Yorko, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Hofland explained the porters carried the bulk of the weight for the hikers, including their tents, food and other supplies.
    — Barbie Porter, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
  • And the Nabataean porters had secret reservoirs of water and supplies that only the Nabataeans could find.
    — Jeremy Hillpot, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
  • In Pullman’s case those workers were porters, many of whom had been previously enslaved.
    — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The video shows two porters in their 70s unloading a truckload of cement using their hands and shoulders.
    — Li Yuan, New York Times, 4 May 2023

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