(1) From the vantage point of my 10-centimetre porthole, I glimpsed life forms with outlines like blown glass occasionally drifting past our lights, while small crustaceans hovered around like flies, keeping pace with our descent.
(2) Each animal in a den cage remained for 12 or more hours of its rest period almost exclusively in the darkened nest box, then at an abrupt arousal time moved to the light-sampling porthole.
(3) He then inserts five small “portholes” for his instruments, and I begin to see inside Franks’ belly on monitors showing images from Pring’s keyhole camera.
(4) Chest-high at the front, clad in black tiles, the structure had a number of openings and artfully arranged portholes.
(5) They wrote a message, placed it in a bottle, and tossed it into the sea through a porthole.
(6) With the lights switched off during ascent, I could press my face against the porthole to see the bioluminescent displays of deep-sea animals: flashes and squirts of light in the smothering darkness, triggered by the passing of our submersible.
(7) It really felt like a pioneering thing when we first arrived,” she says, sitting in the living room of her home, which nestles behind the foundry apse like a cosy Hobbit cave, its porthole windows looking down on the bronze-pouring action below.
(8) Perhaps the most famous Metabolist incarnation is Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower , another pile of concrete cubes dotted with porthole-like windows, erected in 1972.
(9) Having already lost two days’ work, and with a skeleton team, the core group of about 25 people entered Libé’s “porthole” conference room, where the paper holds its morning editorial meeting.
(10) Its undulating facade of tapering terracotta cones, studded with porthole windows, formed the basis of what would prove to be his trademark style.
(11) As I looked out of a porthole for the porpoises that are said to come in close to the shore, I marvelled at this perfect marriage of Danish nature and smart design.
(12) The recalcitrance of the US and others on this issue smacks of protectionism - closing the portholes and hunkering down.
(13) There was standing room only in the eighth floor editorial conference room known as "le hublot" (the porthole), where journalists' union representative Olivier Bertrand dismissed reports that shareholders had attracted €12m (£10m) in new investment as only rumours.
(14) Every time you join a yacht and meet your new crew, or look out of the porthole when you arrive in the Maldives, or the Seychelles, you get a kick.
(15) Such actions involve water cannons and the damage is nothing worse than a few broken portholes.
(16) This is a subtle and sophisticated way of mocking people who dared to file a complaint with the ECHR: ah, OK, so you say that a cage with bars is bad; well then, here's a cage made of glass, with a little porthole through which you can talk to your lawyers, but you need to twist and contort yourself every which way to actually be able to speak through it.
(17) Southerden has spent the last seven months, with the help of hundreds of locals, designing, building and decorating a 210-tonne bow, complete with portholes and life rafts, to fit onto the end of his pub, the Coach and Horses in Kibworth .
(18) "The criminals managed to cut off all means of communication, but the 'prisoners' tossed a bottle with a message through a porthole explaining the situation," said La Russa.
(19) Our portholes became discs of the deepest blue imaginable – a colour eloquently described as "luminous black" by deep-sea pioneer William Beebe , after whom we named the undersea vents below.
(20) So far it has survived Trafalgar Square's infamous pigeons remarkably well, and the portholes in the base hide airconditioning to stop the bottle, made from perspex by an Italian firm specialising in aquarium manufacture, from fogging up.
Scuttle
Definition:
(n.) A broad, shallow basket.
(n.) A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
(v. i.) To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.
(n.) A quick pace; a short run.
(n.) A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.
(n.) A small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like hole in the side or bottom of a ship.
(n.) An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.
(n.) The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.
(v. t.) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
(v. t.) To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government was not aware of, nor is it interested in, what Secretary Kerry announced, which represents a desire to scuttle peace efforts by trying to reach an agreement with the Houthis apart from the government,” Mekhlafi wrote on his official Twitter page.
(2) They can be more direct when Giroud is on the pitch, and more creative when Griezmann scuttles around the attacking third.
(3) Built up at the end of the 19th century to provide large family homes for white-collar workers travelling to the City on the new railway, by the 1930s those homes were being turned into lodging houses, places for single tenants to watch the rain, listen to the mice scuttle, and hang themselves from the ornamental ceiling rose.
(4) The subsequent collapse of AbbVie’s planned £34bn takeover of the FTSE 100 firm Shire – the biggest to be scuttled by the White House’s clampdown on inversions – showed that the “tax inversion risk, quite frankly, has become a reality”, he said.
(5) And never going anywhere near the goal, scuttling along the ground for a goal kick.
(6) The deal is the biggest to be scuttled by the White House’s clampdown on so-called tax inversions by US companies buying overseas to secure a lower tax rate.
(7) Republicans have thus far had little power to scuttle the agreement, reached last week between six world powers and Iran after nearly two years of negotiations and designed to restrict Iran’s nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief.
(8) Boxer described the Republicans’ letter as “bizarre, inappropriate” and a “desperate ploy to scuttle a comprehensive agreement” that she said is “in the best interests of the United States, Israel and the world”.
(9) Over its 60 minutes, it scuttles from Africa to Haiti, where it accuses the Clintons of “disaster capitalism”, to Latin America, India and Russia.
(10) The tight-lipped Brady read out her oath of allegiance and scuttled off, leaving the money shot to Baroness Trumpington.
(11) This move would very likely scuttle the current six-month agreement, end negotiations toward a comprehensive settlement , and put us back on the path to war.
(12) If there is a deal, it will be very costly for Congress to scuttle.
(13) Ruined, lost, burnt, scuttled rigs were healing on the ocean floor and coming back.
(14) The amendment left the government facing the prospect of scuttling its own legislation to give the tax office greater powers to stop global companies using “artificial or contrived arrangements” to avoid tax obligations.
(15) The Journal reported on Tuesday that not only did Israel spy on Americans negotiating with Iran, but they gave that information to Republicans in Congress, in an attempt to scuttle the deal.
(16) For instance, in his speech, Jeb called for strengthening Egypt, the sclerotic autocracy the United States propped up for decades and whose torture and repression birthed Sayyid Qutb and the Muslim Brotherhood (out from under whose robes al-Qaida scuttled into the world); its current president took power in a coup and is hardly known for his weakness on anything but human rights and press freedoms .
(17) The ball is played into a giant gap between Ferdinand and Jones, where Silva latches on to it and scuttles goalwards.
(18) The burst of violence was brief – maybe 15 seconds – just long enough for an adrenaline spike before the storyline jumped back to the present day, where a cockroach was scuttling along a countertop in a quiet, sunlit room.
(19) The referee, Neil Swarbrick, ignored the penalty appeals while Mourinho scuttled off to the manager's room to watch a rerun on television before returning pitchside to make his view clear to the fourth official.
(20) The UK recently implemented a new data retention regime which replaced a 2009 European law scuttled by the European court of justice on privacy grounds.