How to use "porter" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "porter" in popular movie and book plots

  • By a twist of fate, Falco is rescued by his father and his father's porter Gornia.  - Scandal Takes a Holiday
  • A porter finds the girl and names her Le Fresne (modern French frêne, "ash tree"), and gives her to a gentle abbess to raise.  - Le Fresne (lai)
  • Outside the hotel, a porter bumps into his leg with a heavy suitcase.  - The Quiller Memorandum
  • To avoid becoming an indebted sharecropper himself, Simon works the summer as a railway porter for the Pullman Company.  - Roots: The Next Generations
  • Hapgood is angry, but finds a placement through his father as a porter in a hotel.  - A Twist in the Tale (short story collection)
  • He manages to persuade her to give him a job as a kitchen porter in the hotel.  - Hallam Foe
  • As he goes to the couple's suite, he notices the porter taking Steven's suitcase from the adjoining room and is filled with suspicion.  - The Passionate Friends
  • Saxton's eagerness to keep his scientific find secret arouses the suspicion of Wells, who bribes a porter to investigate the crate.  - Horror Express
  • A train pulls into Sunnydale, but the porter goes on board to find all the passengers dead before he too is attacked.  - Crush (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • The porter from their flat, Albert (Mrs Vandemeyer's lift man from The Secret Adversary) is their office worker.  - Partners in Crime (short story collection)
  • Madame Hervé's brother Narcisse (Marcel Pontin) and the day porter (Eugene Deckers) back up her story.  - So Long at the Fair
  • Anthony persuades the two men to take him back to his flat where the porter confirms his identity and then they go up to his rooms.  - The Listerdale Mystery
  • The only word that the porter overheard of their short conversation was "time".  - The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
  • Meanwhile, a night porter named Jim starts selling tickets to locals, who come at night to gawk at the "Elephant Man".  - The Elephant Man (film)
  • She then accompanies Martins to question the porter at Lime's apartment building.  - The Third Man
  • Onboard the train, Sarah and Casey befriend a porter named Bobby Zachs.  - Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

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