port

Definition:
1. A place where ships load and unload goods or shelter from storms.
2. A town or city with a harbour , especially one where ships load and unload goods.
3. Put or turn on the left side, of a ship.

Use 'port' in a sentence:

• 1. The ship will reach port tomorrow morning.
• 2. Staff at some air and sea ports are beginning to protest over pay.
• 3. The ship spent four days in port.
• 4. The small church of San Michel is tucked away in a narrow back street of Port-au-Prince.
• 5. A storm was brewing off Port Angeles in the far north of Washington State.
• 6. It was so foggy that the steamship almost ran down a small boat leaving the port.
• 7. Rotterdam is a major port.
• 8. We opened a white church to the port.
• 9. Vintage ports must be decanted to remove natural sediments.
• 10. The rebels shelled the densely-populated suburbs near the port.
• 11. This is an excellent port being secure from every wind.
• 12. The steamer calls at several ports along the way.
• 13. The new port has been opened to foreign ships.
• 14. Boston quickly became a flourishing port.
• 15. There is only one port along this rocky coast.
• 16. They reached port at last.
• 17. Their first port of call will be Cape Town.
• 18. Her official number is carved on the port side of the forecabin.
• 19. He asked for a glass of port after dinner.
• 20. We left port and headed for the open sea.
• 21. That's always been a problem in this port.
• 22. This port is within two days'sail of New York.
• 23. Crimea's self-defense forces stormed the Ukrainian navy base in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol Wednesday.
• 24. If you're going to have a port, then you have to have a navy.
• 25. Qingdao is a port city in Shanghai Province.
• 26. The whisky was taken to bonded warehouses at Port Dundee.
• 27. If you can buy only one case at auction, it should be vintage port.
• 28. The tugboat towed the damaged ship into port.
• 29. When they first captured the port, they virtually cleaned out its warehouses.
• 30. We stopped for the night in Port Augusta.
• 31. Rockets and shells continued to hit the battered port.
• 32. The port had been attacked by German dive bombers for the past five days.
• 33. After that, food shipments to the port could begin in a matter of weeks.
• 34. This port can handle up to 50000000 tons of cargo every year.
• 35. The ship steered into port.
• 36. On a grey, wet, miserable day our teams congregated in Port Townsend.
• 37. This is vintage port, and it is distinguishable by its deep red colour.
• 38. A group of rebels overran the port area and most of the northern suburbs.
• 39. The ship is outward bound , sailing away from its home port.
• 40. The ship spent four days in port .
• 41. The local tourist office should be your first port of call in any town.
• 42. A variety of heavy industries grew up alongside the port.
• 43. And yet the single most revealing moment I spent in Yemen came not in Old Sana'a, but in the bombed-out, headline-ridden port of Aden.
• 44. The Port Authority is an agency jointly run by New York and New Jersey.
• 45. It is very alcoholic, sometimes near the strength of port.
• 46. This port can handle up to 40,000,000 tons of cargo a year.
• 47. If you want to have a navy, you have to have a port.
• 48. Everybody came in with their Christmas order for beer and spirits and port and one thing and another.
• 49. They had asked Hong Kong for permission to put into port there.
• 50. The port is quiet and unspoiled.
• 51. The rail strike is causing major disruptions at the country's ports.
• 52. The vessels will have to land their catch at designated ports.
• 53. The boat calls at the main port to load its regular cargo of bananas.
• 54. Russian commanders docked a huge aircraft carrier in a Russian port.
• 55. He went ashore at every port.
• 56. Five ambulances are on standby at the port.
• 57. The Greeks coming to Troy needed a port to anchor their ships.
• 58. The port is vital to supply relief to millions of drought victims.
• 59. The device plugs into one of the laptop's USB ports.