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

The scan shows new close-up details, including a porthole that was most likely smashed by the iceberg.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2025

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

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

Just as she finished, Renata saw something through the porthole.

From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan