Port Arthur

noun

1. Lüshun.
2. a seaport in SE Texas, on Sabine Lake.
3. Thunder Bay

Port Arthur

noun

1. a former penal settlement (1833–70) in Australia, on the S coast of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania
2. See Lüshun
   the former name of Lüshun

Example Sentences

By the time BASF opened a plant in the coastal town of Port Arthur in 2001, nearby communities were so inundated with poisonous air that the arrival of BASF hardly stood out.

From ProPublica

The 27-year-old teacher’s life has been shaped by the inescapable presence of more than a dozen petrochemical facilities that dominate the skyline in Port Arthur, Texas.

From ProPublica

Yet Roosevelt recalled that Japan had initiated war with Russia in 1904 in a similar way by striking its naval base at Port Arthur.

From Time

Large swaths of the Greater Houston area make up the third-biggest hot spot of cancer-causing air in the country, according to our analysis, after Louisiana’s Cancer Alley and an area around Port Arthur, Texas, which is on the Louisiana border.

From ProPublica

He was the son of fundamentalist Christians from Port Arthur, Tex.

From Washington Post

Then he makes off with another deadbeat, and starts a kind of show outside the town—this was in Port Arthur, mind.

From Project Gutenberg

Port Arthur—one of the penal settlements on Tasman's Peninsula.

From Project Gutenberg

Since the outbreak of hostilities, however, she has been transformed into a hospital ship at Port-Arthur.

From Project Gutenberg

From the mill to Port Arthur runs a great network of German trenches.

From Project Gutenberg

There are some half-dozen of these establishments in Port Arthur.

From Project Gutenberg