porthole

Example Sentences

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He was a 25-year-old tinkering with self-tanners, but all the intrigue and action seemed to be around the lab next door, with its strange music, flashing lights and tinfoil covering the porthole.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

He’s even built a concrete fire shelter against a hillside with two steel escape doors and porthole windows.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025

Inside, the shelves are packed with thousands of items: from an upturned bathtub and dented porthole, to intricately etched glassware and tiny buttons.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2024

Back then, it looked like something out of a science-fiction film: a futuristic tower composed of 140 detachable, single-resident capsules with porthole windows, like a pile of eyes fixed on the city.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024

He presses his face right up to the porthole.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides