How to use porter in a sentence

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• She thanked the porter and slipped a ten-dollar bill into his hand.From the entry slip
• As front hall porter, you are an ambassador for the hotel.From the entry ambassador
• Porter, can you help me with my bags? — No problem, sir.From the entry no problem
• Stout is darker, stronger and sweeter than porter beer.From the entry stout
• He spoke familiarly to the hotel porter.From the entry familiarly
• "Prêt-à-porter" is a French borrowing that refers to ready-to-wear clothing.From the entry ready-to-wear
• There have been many major and minor orders in the history of Christianity: the order of virgins, of deacons, priests, lectors, acolytes, porters, catechists, widows, etc.From the entry order
• The quay teemed chock-a-block with porters, officials, clumps of overcoated people under umbrellas.2012, Michèle Roberts, Ignorance, page 218. From the entry chock-a-block
• "Nileside," the porter says with a giftful gesture, as though offering us the fruits of paradise."2003, Margaret Laurence, Nora Foster Stovel, Heart of a Stranger. From the entry giftful
• On the other side of the Atlantic 'tacklehouse' and 'ticket' porters unloaded the ships.2003, Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, page 167. From the entry tacklehouse
• Dr Dirt is indeed Eric Gorr long time porter and engine mod man.1996 July 15, Michael Patrick, “Re: Dr.Dirt?”, in rec.motorcycles.dirt (Usenet). From the entry mod man
• Porter is ooching in his chair because we think you're dead wrong on that.1986, Connelly, chairman, Public Hearings: Nursing Home Preadmission Screening—Program or Promise?: Transcript […], Sacramento, Calif.…. From the entry ooch
• The door of the night porter’s room opened and the porter came across the entrance lobby.1939, Raymond Chandler, “I'll be Waiting”, in Collected Stories of Raymond Chandler. From the entry call bell
• The hall porter came, a magnificent being, but full of affable condescension.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry hall porter
• Porter and other men established the surgery of toxic thyroid upon a fairly rational basis?1922 December, W. D. Gatch, J. R. Eastman (commentator), “Surgical Aspects of Endocrinology”, in Journal of the Indiana State Medical…. From the entry silver top
• The hall porter said that, as often as not, the flat was untenanted.1918, Edgar Wallace, chapter 7, in The Man Who Knew. From the entry as often as not
• Porter Smith, on the supposition that the first two characters meant India, identified this with Cinnamomum tamala.[1911, “Vegetable Kingdom”, in Chinese Materia Medica, →OCLC, page 109. From the entry Taizhou
• It’s a process used for a variety of styles, including, but not limited to, ales like Goses, wheats, Kölsches, and porters.2017, Thea Engst, Lauren Vigdor, “How to Order”, in Drink Like a Bartender, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 92. From the entry kölsch
• Family members include bitters, porters, stouts, alts and kölschs.2016, Tim Hampson, The 50 Greatest Beers of the World, Icon Books. From the entry alt
• A porter was a fine thing to be back then.2014, Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good (Mitford; 10), New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 56. From the entry gran'ma
• Passed two porters, slumped on plastic chairs.2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.3, at p.62-63. From the entry sunning
• And in the Olmsted Hotel in Cleveland he surprised a porter and a maid lasciviously osculating in a stairwell.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections. From the entry osculate
• The two porters leapt into action, steamed up to the front of the room and started jackbooting the burning paper.2000, Geoff Nicholson, Bedlam Burning. From the entry jackboot
• It should be noted that the palanquin he mentioned as having 4 to 8 porters were small and not too heavy.1993, “Royal Palanquin”, in Heritage of Thai Culture, page 99. From the entry palanquin
• Porter Sq. apt; garden, porches, children OK.1976 April 10, “Classified advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 19. From the entry bdrm.
• When they had finished and Bond rang for the Pullman porter, he also seemed distrait and avoided looking at Bond.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Silver Phantom”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 103. From the entry distrait
• Every time she begins to get out a porter rushes up crying "Hurry up, ma'am; train's going!"—and pushes her in again!1944 May and June, “When the Circle was Steam Operated”, in Railway Magazine, page 150. From the entry advanced
• The porter waved his arms and spoke in Norweigan.1926 November, J. C. Breckinridge, “The Gift of One Common Tongue”, in Bulletin of the Pan American Union, volume 60, number 11…. From the entry Norweigan
• The old-fashioned coon was a fine old cuss--he knew his place--but these young dinges don't want to be porters or cotton-pickers.1922, Sinclair Lewis, “10”, in Babbitt. From the entry dinges
• The Wabunga and Wangoni provide the best porters, and their capacity is similar to that of the Wanyamwezi.1916, Great Britain. War Office, A Handbook of German East Africa, page 334. From the entry Wanyamwezi
• Meeting us came porters with loads of coal, coke, and lime, in which the district of Nan-ch'uan Hsien is rich.1914, Alexander Hosie, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy, volume I, Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 251. From the entry bound for
• Welcoming Captain St Claire, Prince Rupert ordered him a shant of dark porter and called upon him to speak of his travels.2015, Michael Moorcock -, The Whispering Swarm, →ISBN. From the entry shant
• The porter must have seen me gawking, for he said pleasantly, "This is the atrium, the room Lady Julia uses for entertainment.2013, Joan Wolf, Daughter of Jerusalem, Brentwood, T.N.: Worthy Publishing, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry peristylum
• An Irish pub, McCaul’s serves the Guinness, Harp and Bass you'd expect plus a rotating lineup of raspberry framboises and coffee porters.2010, Amber Nimocks, “Nightlife”, in Insiders’ Guide® to North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad: Greensboro, Winston-Salem & High Point…. From the entry framboise
• Porter was babysitting, Patty was observed to pull down her diaper and manipulate her clitoris and try to insert her finger into her "booty".2004, Fannie Lillian Miles Bellamy, Defaming Teddy: A Father Falsely Accused, Pittsburgh, Penn.: Dorrance Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 6. From the entry booty
• Violas were school instruments and were got ready for each rehearsal like sardines in a row by the porter, Mr Háček, in his own lodge.1993, Jana Marhounová, Czech Music in the Web of Life (Empatie), page 125. From the entry háček

Meaning of porter

1. noun A person who carries luggage and related objects; (historically) one who carried luggage or did manual labour in the transloading of cargo.
2. noun An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
3. noun One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).

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Questions about porter in a sentence

How do you use porter in a sentence?

Porter is used as a noun and verb. For example: “By the time I reached the train station I was exhausted, but fortunately there was a porter waiting.”

What is a short sentence with porter?

“He spoke familiarly to the hotel porter.”

What does porter mean?

Porter means a person who carries luggage and related objects; (historically) one who carried luggage or did manual labour in the transloading of cargo.