6 sentences with 'portable'
Example sentences and phrases with the word portable and other words derived from it.
• « Today 1,200 volunteers, armed only with portable phones, patrol the borough in pairs from nine at night to two in the morning. »
• « A neighbor of the Ford family had purchased a portable steam engine from the Westinghouse Company, and the contraption broke down. »
• « The next morning, a gendarme began the usual drilling procedure to recover the body, digging around with a portable drill. But after 45 minutes, the compressed air ran out and the body was still stuck in the ice. »
• « David Mason, a Cambridge computer engineer, has made interviews with Hawking more fluid. He designed and built a portable version of the computer-generated voice synthesiser, which can be attached to Stephen's wheelchair. Now his voice accompanies him everywhere, including lecture halls. »
• « Laptops are portable computers that are only a few centimetres larger than a medium-sized notebook, so that they can be placed on the user's lap. »