NOUN
- a major port city in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula; now a part of Luda
- a battle in the Chino-Japanese War (1894); Japanese captured the port and fortifications from the Chinese
How To Use Port Arthur In A Sentence
- Tourists are beginning to go there, as it is a convenient point to remain if one wishes to visit Port Arthur, which is a long day's excursion, leaving early in the morning and returning on an evening train. Travels in the Far East
- Army to incinerate 1.8 million gallons of caustic VX hydrolysate waste water near Port Arthur's Carver Terrace housing project. Burning Deadly Military Waste in Blacks Backyard
- In the American civil war the sieges of Vicksburg and Petersburg saw trench warfare on a localized scale, and the same was true of the siege of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese war.
- KING: And I can tell you just -- based on what John Zarrella was just saying, we're back in Port Arthur, which is a little bit to the north of Sabine Pass, about 18 miles. CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2005
- We're in Beaumont, which is 15 miles to the west of Port Arthur.
- They were standing alone, amidst the ruins of another great experiment in penology, in Port Arthur in Tasmania. THE SCAR
- His eyes glisten from a web of wrinkles, and I can imagine an event for each line drawn: flying in Vietnam, coaching the Port Arthur Toreadors for fifteen years, losing a wife named Marguerite to encephalitis, losing his only child to the state of California. Between Here and the Yellow Sea
- That's just inland from Port Arthur, which is expected to be directly in the cross hairs of this powerful hurricane -- Rob. CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2005
- The hurricane's eye also passed close to Port Arthur, Texas, another petrochemical town where bedraggled refugees spent a wet and noisy night trying to sleep on a hotel lobby carpet - until a gust blew in the windows.
- Larry Shackelford (right) of Nederland rides Coco, a 10-year-old horse, along the intercoastal canal as the Cajun Country Classics band (left) prepares to perform before the Mardi Gras opening parade in Port Arthur on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006. Courir Parade