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.
