Example sentences for: port

How can you use “port” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Disney Cruises run from Port Canaveral, stop at Nassau for a day, and then move on to Disney’s private Bahamian hideaway, “Castaway Cay,” for days of fun and relaxation.

  • Equally hard to believe, this inland town was once a port and coastal fortress until the sea inlet here silted up, leaving the quiet Óbidos lagoon cut off and the shoreline nearly 10 km (6 miles) away.

  • The bulk of the collection was assembled by fur trader George Crofts after he settled in the port of Tianjin; it was continued after his death in 1925 by the Anglican Bishop of Hunan, William Charles White.

  • Another 200,000 abandoned Cuba as part of the Freedom Flights Program between 1965 and 1971, and 125,000 — a good number of whom were said to be criminals — followed in 1980, when Castro lifted travel restrictions from the port of Mariel (west of Havana).

  • Since its earliest days, Manzanillo has been considered an important trading port.


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