Synonym: Cole Albert Porter, Cole Porter, Katherine Anne Porter, O. Henry, Porter, Pullman porter, William Sydney Porter, door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter's beer. Similar words: reporter, supporter, portend, reportedly, purportedly, forte, vortex, port. Meaning: ['pɔrtə(r) /'pɔː-] n. 1. a person employed to carry luggage and supplies 2. someone who guards an entrance 3. United States writer of novels and short stories (1890-1980) 4. United States composer and lyricist of musical comedies (1891-1946) 5. United States writer of short stories whose pen name was O. Henry (1862-1910) 6. a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars) 7. a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley. v. carry luggage or supplies.
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91. Porter has a talent for making a difficult subject understandable and interesting.
92. Grant rode down to the river to exchange congratulations with Admiral Porter on their joint victory.
93. A porter threw one of our bundles into the gutter.
94. It seems highly likely that most if not all the beer produced in Brick Lane by now was porter.
95. Sales have reached record levels, mainly through company stores in Florida, and it has become Porter Paints' fastest-growing product.
96. Mickeen Gavan, the porter, had been unusually quiet, his eyes evasive.
97. He assumed that a porter or janitor was usually stationed there to be on call or to answer enquiries.
98. I signed in; took the lift with a bored porter to my room, which was twin-bedded, overlooking the park.
99. He added that there are no plans to merge the Ketchum public-relations operations with its existing public-relations agency, Porter Novelli.
100. Only Porter, Liddy and Magruder had received large amounts of money.
101. BDecades before strict campaign disclosure laws were enacted, Porter had his own code of ethics.
102. Admittedly in many of Petipa's pas de deux he seems merely to be a porter.
103. A young porter stood in the corridor, a large laundry basket by his side.
104. A university porter saw the smoke and called the fire brigade.
105. The Tourist Office or your hotel porter can advise you.
106. And there he stayed as porter Mike Creamer slammed shut its heavy oak door.
107. After arguing with the night porter for another ten minutes, they worked their way up floor by floor.
108. In the 1950s, Paisley and Norman Porter led banned parades.
109. Porter developed the Breckenridge Ski Area, luring new settlers to a land of white gold.
110. The porter holds the car door as if restraining a very strong, young Galapagos tortoise from doing what it pleases.
111. Guinness tried his hand at the new Porter with rather more success than his fellow Dublin brewers.
112. On the late shift the desk and telephone switchboard are often covered by a skeleton staff or a night porter.
113. All the gangster wanted in return was for Porter to open the city to Eastern racketeers.
114. Stonewall Jackson was expected to arrive from the northwest at the same time to hit Porter on the flank.
115. It had been hard to convince the Imperial's sommelier of the necessity for the presence of porter and ginger beer.
116. A tall, fast-talking southerner whose accent still lingers despite her years in the north,[http://sentencedict.com/porter.html] Porter does not suffer fools gladly.
117. Robinson and Porter both retrieved the small plastic buckets from one corner of the cell and wandered out on to the landing.
118. Mrs Porter was not particularly pleased at being interrupted by such an errand.
119. The porter took a tip from Stephen, touched his cap and wheeled his barrow away.
120. Porter is disdainful of professors he believes are incompetent or lazy.
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