make port

Example Sentences

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For reasons that remain unknown, it was still trying to make port in Sri Lanka as late as last Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

The cruises will instead make port stops in cities like Trieste, Italy instead of Israel, according to the email sent by Oceania Cruises, which is owned by Norwegian.

From Reuters • Oct. 31, 2023

In the early 1800s, fleets of American whaling ships began to make port in Lahaina, reshaping the economy as sailors flooded the town.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2023

A more robust Chinese presence in the South Pacific could enable its naval forces to make port calls and possibly put personnel and equipment at a base in the area.

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2022

They tried to make port in Japon, but it was impossible; and they finally arrived at Manila, rounding Cabo del Bojeador.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Blair, Emma Helen