PORTER in a Sentence

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145 example sentences for PORTER, such as:
1. Another day he spoke to the porter.
2. The porter, however, could not understand me.
3. The porter was weighed down by all the luggage.
4. The porter will carry your luggage to your room.
5. I will ask a porter to carry the baggages for me.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PORTER
porter
 n.  United States composer and lyricist of musical comedies (1891-1946)
 n.  United States writer of novels and short stories (1890-1980)
Classic Sentence: (140 in 10 pages)
1  The porter of the town-hall had been placed there by the Emperor.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
2  Come, there goes another peal, that is to order the porter to go and inform the municipality that the dead-doctor is to come here and view a corpse.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
3  The porter opens; I have my vintage basket on my back, the child is in it, I go out.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
4  A sort of letter-box was constructed in the porter's window.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
5  The grave-digger dropped his card into this box, the porter heard it fall, pulled the rope, and the small door opened.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
6  The undertaker's man addressed himself to the porter of the cemetery.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
7  Once outside the gate, you gallop home, you get your card, you return, the cemetery porter admits you.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
8  The porter admitted all three of them through this door, and from that point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY
9  There he had for servants, in addition to the porter, that chambermaid, Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and pursy Basque, who have been mentioned above.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND
10  Only, as he did not know any one and could not sow his cards with any porter, he put them in his pocket.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
11  For thirty sous, Marius got it turned by some porter or other, and it was a new coat.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT
12  "Has moved away," replied the porter.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—ECLIPSE
13  And the porter, raising his eyes, recognized Marius.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—ECLIPSE
14  On leaving the convent, he took in his own arms the little valise the key to which he still wore on his person, and would permit no porter to touch it.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET
15  Another day he spoke to the porter.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF
Example Sentence:
1  From this window were visible the porter's lodge and the road.
2  The porter will carry your luggage to your room.
3  The porter was weighed down by all the luggage.
4  I will ask a porter to carry the baggages for me.
5  The porter, however, could not understand me.