portside

Example Sentences

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They sold their fish overnight, then slugged back beers at a portside cafe as the first light broke over the water.

From Washington Post

Logan lives in Long Beach, a portside community where adults are hospitalized because of asthma at higher rate than across California, according to a 2019 health survey.

From Washington Post

If you are sharing a vehicle that does not have rear doors on both sides, as ours didn’t, the portside sleeper will be effectively trapped on their half of the bed from the moment they enter it, as I was.

From New York Times

Cheshire West and Chester Council's planning committee overwhelmingly rejected Island Gas's plan to test a shale gas well at Portside North on the outskirts of Ellesmere Port in 2018.

From BBC

While British retirees sipped coffee beneath the awnings of portside cafes, hundreds or even thousands of migrants trudged past, seeking food, shelter or the next ferry to the mainland.

From New York Times