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Example sentences for: portions

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

If the diskette is placed in the slot of the machine, a motor engages the center of the disk inside and spins it around at a great speed so that portions of it are exposed as they pass by the oblong slot, allowing them to be “written on” or “read” by some device inside the box.
2 A competitor, City Mail, has served selected portions of the country but was twice forced into bankruptcy.
Bacteriophage clones containing portions of the γ 1 gene were isolated from a mouse 129Sv genomic library (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA #946305).
Later, she discovered that though he'd done poorly on most portions of the test, he had scored off the charts on one: "The maze."
1 The term competitors stands for private firms that compete for portions of postal work, possibly as contractors or agents of mailers or mailing organizations.