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porthole

[ UK /pˈɔːthə‍ʊl/ ]
NOUN
  1. a window in a ship or airplane
  2. an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through

How To Use porthole In A Sentence

  • The bow is equally imposing, with two extremely large anchors still in their hawsers and a great deal of machinery and portholes to see.
  • Plenty of light enters through empty portholes on both sides of the engine room and ventilator hatches in the roof.
  • The small round porthole was coated in a thin layer of fog, and he saw nothing but the smooth ocean basking in the moon glow.
  • Derryn looked out the porthole of the ship's cabin: dark, except for the starlight that reflected off of the sea's gentle waves.
  • By varying the angle of reflected light, an illusion is created that the ocellar scales are intermittently emitting light, thus providing an explanation of Sanderson’s original account of the lizard 'switch [ing] on its portholes.' Archive 2006-11-01
  • The style is of a luxury cruiser, with round windows looking like portholes and the gleaming white exterior the hull of a ship.
  • Light clusters, clear, deep, on the face of the radio gear ... fans up softly off the dial of the pelorus ... spills out portholes onto the white river. Gravity's Rainbow
  • Alex limped to the porthole, apparently surveying the scene of unloading beneath him. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • There was a chair and a desk bolted down on the wood planked floor, a few paintings on the walls and a porthole, which was covered by her cloak.
  • After airplane landing, saw from the porthole the first picture is, a combat transport stops in there, downward unloads a bunch of bunch of tent and the military stretcher.
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