portable

How To Use portable In A Sentence

• The company said yesterday that that burden had become 'unsupportable in the long term'. Times, Sunday Times
• So in 1997, he built his first portable colposcope -- a battery-powered, head-mounted binocular fashioned from surgical glasses, a bicycle halogen head light and a green camera filter. NewsObserver.com - Home
• There was a little portable television switched on behind the bar.
• The added demands brought about by the ageing population will place an insupportable burden on acute hospital services.
• I still see Mr. Berman's portable shtender in the shul and I have to smile because I immediately see his warm gentle smile and think about how fortunate I was to have met your father.
• For the floors above, we can use temporary airsealing floor by floor, and portable equipment; when we have things atmosphered and lighted and heated, you and Martha and Tony Lattimer can go to work systematically and in comfort, and I'll give you all the help I can spare from the other work. Omnilingual
• Some fans continued throwing, hurling their souvenirs, drink cups, beer bottles, batteries, portable radios and cell phones onto the field.
• The latest discs, used for small portable computers, spin 3600 times a minute.
• The department also said that 26 portable memory sticks containing classified information had been stolen or misplaced since January. Times, Sunday Times
• These portable torches use pressurized tanks of propane and, if handled carelessly, can be hazardous.