The portside seemed a scant three feet above water while the starboard side reared menacingly in the air.
Her portside was noticeably down—it was becoming even more difficult to maintain a footing on the slippery, sharply sloping deck.
It sounded wild now, uncontrollable, just like the spirits of nature he sensed lurking above the brooding land mass off his portside bow.
Off theportside the English warship, a gray hulk with towering masts, was rapidly narrowing the distance between them.
Winston was studying the bobbing mast lights off their portside bow.
Then see if you can't put a round through her portside gun deck.
If they pull in range, tell Canninge to just fire at will whenever theportside guns bear.
While the men squinted against the sun to watch, a large hole splintered open along the portside bow of the Marsten Moor, just above the waterline.
Mewes shouted toward the portside bow and a seaman began to feed out the anchor cable.
I think you'd better have the portside guns primed and ready to run out, just in case.
First the starboard side bay was opened and closed, then the portside bay.
He spoke to Petra, then reached down with his left hand and flicked forward the second blue switch behind the throttle quadrant, initiating the simulated hydrogen feed to the outboard scramjet tridents, portside and starboard.
Power-up complete for inboard and outboard tridents, portside and starboard, Petra reported finally.
She was moving in off hisportside stern--he guessed she was making at least fifteen knots.
The next thing he knew, he was clinging to the portside gunwale, one hand still tangled in the lines that had been ripped from the sail.
And Odyssey II was beginning to heel precariously, forcing him to apply helm, throwing his full hundred and eighty pounds against the heavy wooden portside tiller.
He noted with relief that her ship's carpenter had finally sealed a patch of oakum and sail in the gash along her portside bow.
This time flames and smoke erupted from the Discovery's portside battery, but now it spewed knife-edged chunks of metal and twisting crossbars.
He could still hear the trucks of the cannon below decks, as the starboard battery was being run out, and he knew the portside crews were only now beginning to swab the last glowing shreds of metal from the cannon barrels.
I want the portside battery loaded with crossbar forward, and langrel aft.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "portside" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: companion; left; liberal; parts; port; radical; ship; verso
