How to Use porter in a Sentence

porter

noun

• Dark beers like porters or stouts will not show the green at all.
  — Erin Cavoto, Country Living, 23 Feb. 2023
• The truck rumbled off, and the porter returned to cleaning the sidewalk.
  — New York Times, 30 Oct. 2022
• As a porter and a church sexton, Cheatham was hired to work for the Fire Department in 1888.
  — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 25 Mar. 2022
• The folks at Evening Sky have a simple, refreshing porter on the menu.
  — Hartford Courant, 19 Oct. 2022
• His mother, Hellen, was a nurse and his father, Louis Sr., a porter.
  — Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• Movie nights under starry skies amid the heaters call for porter.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Feb. 2022
• The porter nodded, swung his hose around and gave the truck’s windshield a thorough washing.
  — New York Times, 30 Oct. 2022
• This was not just another camera, though the porters did not know that yet.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• The porter, Curtis Jordan, wound up facing two charges, while the cops went on to serve decades on the police force.
  — Samuel G. Freedman, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
• Amaya works as a day porter at a medical center in Falls Church, Va.
  — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• And the Nabataean porters had secret reservoirs of water and supplies that only the Nabataeans could find.
  — Jeremy Hillpot, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
• Men can enter the space – but only to buy goods, to work as porters or guards or to provide the women with cups of milky chai.
  — Story, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
• Most of the colleges were closed to visitors, but MacAskill had perfected the flash of an old I.D. card and a brazen stride past a porter.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• Lhakpa began working as a porter in the mountains at age 15.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 12 May 2022
• This donation is the sum of 136 hours of his labor in the prison working as a porter/janitor.
  — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
• No one would have guessed the contents, certainly not the porter who assisted her on this day.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• Come in here and be yourself, kick back with a variety of IPAs, stouts, porters, seasonal brews and more.
  — Katie Toussaint, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Salted Caramel Porter runs on the subtler side and doesn’t blow you away with saltiness or caramel, just a nice balance showcased in a dry porter.
  — oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2022
• The video shows two porters in their 70s unloading a truckload of cement using their hands and shoulders.
  — Li Yuan, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• His father was a porter on the Santa Fe Railroad, and his mother was a homemaker.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• Over the course of hundreds of years, the Nabataeans became extravagantly wealthy as merchants and trusted desert porters in the area.
  — Jeremy Hillpot, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
• Then thick porters, which originated in London in the 1700s, became popular with the working class on both sides of the pond.
  — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• The porters who work in this gorilla habitat volunteer their time.
  — Alisandra Puliti, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2023
• Around 1818, he was hired as a porter for the Bank of Washington, entrusted with carrying large sums of money.
  — Cassandra Good, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2023
• Additionally, tens of thousands of porters are needed to carry loads to the base camps.
  — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 7 May 2023
• Look for a robust porter rolling out on Oct. 21 or soon after, as Hancock continues to get the brewpub shipshape.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
• Once the riverbeds turn to an ascent up a mountain to the Panamanian border, porters offer their services.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
• His father was a Pullman porter, and his mother, Alease (Scott) Dilday, was a homemaker.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• English ales were — and are — less bitter and skunky than modern American porters and ales thanks to different hops, Clark said.
  — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• David Miano has provided support to hundreds of trips in his two decades working as a freelance porter.
  — Kang-Chun Cheng, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024