21.   Examples of these include filters on portable phones that screen out anything that seems like static, even if it produces eerily crisp sound.

22.   Free local calls can be made from existing coin-operated phones and portable phone banks at emergency shelters.

23.   He then proceeded through the house, Smith said, keeping his wife on the line on his portable phone.

24.   His wife of the past two years, fashion designer Rena Rowan, puts her portable phone aside and takes part in the quiet moment of thanks.

25.   His portable phone rings frequently and he takes orders from all over the country.

26.   I go back to my story, but my portable phone rings.

27.   I raced around the house collecting towels, the portable phone pressed to my ear my only connection to a bat-free world.

28.   I reach for the portable phone and take off to the attic for a suitcase, giving orders the whole way.

29.   I misplace the portable phone almost every time I use it.

30.   In a few months, the company will launch its consumer-oriented personal communications service, or PCS, a digital portable phone system.