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Example sentences for: portable

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

The typewriter is being replaced by the computer, and the home sewing machine has become a small, inexpensive portable unit stored in the closet and used for minor repairs and alterations—if it is used at all.
Stone rubbings of inscriptions from ancient temples, or of classical calligraphy on stone pillars, make popular (and portable) souvenirs.
The WP goes more for narrative, with such passages as: "In county after county, meanwhile, people confronted hardships that seemed almost biblical in scope: Coffins sent floating away from low-lying cemeteries; portable incinerators being assembled to dispose of 100,000 dead hogs and a million drowned poultry; oceanfront homes being swept away; and thousands of residents living without safe tap water, telephones or mail service."
Many of the materials are posted only in PDF (portable document format), which must be downloaded to be read.
Portable Network Graphic (PNG) File showing cell cycle genes in response to TGFβ 1 . Western Blot analysis of HeLa, MCF-7 and Keratinocytes (Keratino) cells as indicated after stimulation with TGFβ 1 for the time indicated.