How to Use porthole in a Sentence

porthole

noun
  • At the bottom, wires spew from a porthole to snake up and down and away.
    — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 12 July 2018
  • Pair the porthole window with a scone to light the loft during the night.
    — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The next morning those who could fit through the porthole crawled inside.
    — David Kelly, latimes.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The new towers will be blue and white, with a porthole window and a wrap-around deck.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 16 June 2017
  • One friend brought her coffee by pouring it through a tube into the porthole.
    — USA Today, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The scan shows there is a broken porthole that could account for those reports.
    — ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The third floor has a kitchen, a bedroom and a bathroom with a large porthole window.
    — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Blue parrotfish with pointy beaks weave in and out of ghostly portholes.
    — Erik Heinrich, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
  • Rush, the pilot, usually sat at the back, away from the porthole.
    — John Branch, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
  • Window treatments range from small, round portholes to sliding glass doors.
    — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2026
  • The coach was painted red and had black and gold lettering, and the windows were portholes.
    — Randy McCrory Vintage Bentonville, arkansasonline.com, 1 Feb. 2024
  • In the restaurant, Djiba jumped out of a porthole and plunged into the ocean.
    — Elian Peltier, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2022
  • He's been obsessed with having a porthole, being able to open a porthole.
    — Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2025
  • And those of us who witness the glow happily stare through portholes, hoping for just one more peek.
    — Heather Greenwood Davis, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026
  • On the second floor stands a book wall with a porthole carved into it; nearby is a walk-through tunnel.
    — Lesley M. M. Blume, New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • One day, the workers dropped off a vintage Buick sedan with portholes along the front fenders.
    — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 28 Apr. 2020
  • The fact that there are still many glass portholes intact amazed me, and really impressed me just how durable this ship is.
    — Gina Martinez, Time, 22 Aug. 2019
  • At that moment, a bright white beam of sunlight came in through the porthole and struck Audrey’s left eye.
    — Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The Titan has a large porthole for viewing, a key feature and draw of the vessel.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2023
  • The views from your porthole windows alone are enough to make any deckhand drop anchor for an extended stay.
    — Celine Bossart, ELLE Decor, 21 June 2016
  • People will be able to peer through portholes in parts of the substation’s walls to see its inner workings.
    — Barbara Sadick, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2017
  • The curving walls are set with portholes, and the space is cut into three floors by interlaced fabric bands.
    — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 23 Oct. 2007
  • The porthole window in the archway matched the circular opening in the crown.
    — Curbed, 2 Nov. 2022
  • One day, his father was pouring a drink between takes and Dreyfuss hurled the glass through a porthole.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Still, the view from the porthole during the famed dive was something to behold, at least for a few fleeting minutes.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
  • This will give him a much better view than researchers get in government subs, which sport just a couple of small portholes.
    — Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Feb. 2012
  • As the ship was starting to turn upside down, Coburn and a handful of men pulled themselves up through a side porthole.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2023
  • The Shenzhou capsule porthole consists of three layers of glass.
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Everyone rushes to the big porthole windows to watch Anna get walked off the grounds.
    — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2021
  • These are stacked wood or white oak sheets punctuated with portholes and lined inside with parchment paper.
    — Anthony Paletta, Curbed, 17 May 2026

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