PORPOISE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for PORPOISE, such as:
1. They had a great porpoise grant from the crown.
2. It may never have occurred to you that a porpoise spouts.
3. There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.
2. It may never have occurred to you that a porpoise spouts.
3. There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.
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Meanings and Examples of PORPOISE
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porpoise
n. any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth
Classic Sentence:
1 It may never have occurred to you that a porpoise spouts.
2 Be all this as it may, his voice was now often heard hailing the three mast-heads and admonishing them to keep a bright look-out, and not omit reporting even a porpoise.
3 They had a great porpoise grant from the crown.
4 There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context Highlight In CHAPTER X. The Lobster Quadrille
Context Highlight In CHAPTER X. The Lobster Quadrille
5 In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.
6 The name is of my own bestowal; for there are more than one sort of porpoises, and something must be done to distinguish them.
7 Also, that in Henry VIIIth's time, a certain cook of the court obtained a handsome reward for inventing an admirable sauce to be eaten with barbacued porpoises, which, you remember, are a species of whale.
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