porthole

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times

They sent one of the crew members down to peer through a small porthole that allows them to view potential problems in the wheel well while aloft.

From Seattle Times

The top floors house the kitchen, a pirate-themed bedroom complete with a porthole window, and an owner’s suite with sunken showers and stained-glass windows.

From Los Angeles Times

“A male officer tells her to strip and put her pants through the porthole. She says, ‘Please back up, I don’t have no clothes on.'”

From Seattle Times

The previously invisible entity — a porthole to eternity — looked like a fuzzy smoke ring, much as Albert Einstein’s equations had predicted a century ago.

From Seattle Times