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

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

Here’s the pitch: We zoom in on an AI-generated deepfake of Iron Eyes Cody inside the International Space Station, staring through a porthole window at the Earth and its swirling trash-belt.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2023

Within a few minutes, Titan would be absorbed in darkness, and the porthole would be a ring of black.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2023

She was lying on her right side, her face, on the pillow, turned left, toward Teddy and the porthole, her back to her husband.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger