Example sentences for: hand-held

How can you use “hand-held” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 95, hand-held, electronic dictionary, offered in a mail-order catalogue accompanying The Sunday Times [London] of 8 January 1989, is illustrated by a photograph of the device with the following display:

  • The hand-held scanner I have used is very tricky and sensitive, and, as the Writer's Guide admonishes, creates as many problems as it solves; but I am going to pursue the subject nonetheless, hoping that a useful balance might be struck in which less time is spent correcting than in initial keyboarding plus correcting.

  • I need a “tricorder”—the convenient, hand-held device featured on Star Trek that can detect life forms even from orbit.

  • To keep growing, it will have to win over new users who may be tempted by easier-to-use hand-held devices and specialized e-mail and Internet machines.

  • The idea seems to have worked: The ad emerged as one of the Super Bowl broadcast's 10 most successful, according to USA Today 's people meter, a hand-held dial that registered the second-by-second reaction of a sample of 139 consumers.


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