PORTABLE in a Sentence
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20 example sentences for PORTABLE, such as:
1. I bought my son a portable typewriter.
2. As far as it goes, it's property and portable.
3. This portable seat folds flat for easy storage.
4. What I look at is the sacrifice of so much portable property.
5. Whereas, the portable property certainly could have been saved.
2. As far as it goes, it's property and portable.
3. This portable seat folds flat for easy storage.
4. What I look at is the sacrifice of so much portable property.
5. Whereas, the portable property certainly could have been saved.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of PORTABLE
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portable
a. of a motor designed to be attached to the outside of a boat's hull
n. a small light typewriter; usually with a case in which it can be carried
Classic Sentence:
1 They may not be worth much, but, after all, they're property and portable.
2 As far as it goes, it's property and portable.
3 She might have been some two or three years younger than Wemmick, and I judged her to stand possessed of portable property.
4 He laid his hands upon my shoulders, and added in a solemn whisper: "Avail yourself of this evening to lay hold of his portable property."
5 What I look at is the sacrifice of so much portable property.
6 Whereas, the portable property certainly could have been saved.
7 I began to dispose of the more portable articles of property that very evening; and went out on a similar expedition almost every morning, before I went to Murdstone and Grinby's.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
8 Kennicott had inherited it from a medical predecessor, and changed it only by adding a white enameled operating-table, a sterilizer, a Roentgen-ray apparatus, and a small portable typewriter.
9 Miles Bjornstam, the pariah "Red Swede," had brought his circular saw and portable gasoline engine to the house, to cut the cords of poplar for the kitchen range.
10 Luke and Mrs. Dawson picked up ten thousand acres of prairie soil, in the magic portable form of a small check book, and went to Pasadena, to a bungalow and sunshine and cafeterias.
11 After being severed from the whale, the white-horse is first cut into portable oblongs ere going to the mincer.
12 Meanwhile, the spade-man stands on the sheet itself, perpendicularly chopping it into the portable horse-pieces.
13 These sayings were prepared in the inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to drawing room.
Example Sentence:
1 There was a little portable television switched on behind the bar.
2 This portable device enables deaf people to telephone the hospital by typing a message instead of speaking.
3 There is a pretty portable pair of steps in one corner of the room.
4 This portable seat folds flat for easy storage.
5 I bought my son a portable typewriter.
6 They predict that the majority of internet connections will be by mobile communication devices closer to pocket computers than portable telephones.
7 They predict that the vast majority of internet connections will be by mobile communication devices closer to pocket computers than portable telephones.