Sentence examples for Portland from high-quality English sources.

• The current situation in Portland is a telling example."

• They referred to the city as “the stolen land we call Portland.”

• Portland Police arrested three people and declared a civil disturbance.

• Portland is joined on the Willamette River by Eugene and Salem (Oregon’s capital).

• The Portland police had been investigating Saturday’s shooting death of Aaron J.

• In recent years Portland, Oregon, has also made its name as a high-technology center.

• “We are scared to death that what’s happening in Portland will ever come out to where we live.”

• Nguyen shared the details of a day in Portland, Oregon, when she auditioned for jobs at strip clubs and ran work-related errands.

Use Portland in a sentence.

• Sun Country Airlines is adding Portland, Maine to its route network from Minneapolis on June 18 with seasonal service until October 22.

• Pop. (2000) 529,121; Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro Metro Area, 1,927,881; (2010) 583,776; Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro Metro Area, 2,226,009.

• Portland Trail Blazers, American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon, that plays in the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

• Portland International Airport, for example, implemented a policy in the '80s that keeps food prices in the airport equivalent to the food prices found in the city of Portland.

• Pop. (2000) 20,942; Portland–South Portland–Biddeford Metro Area, 487,568; (2010) 21,277; Portland–South Portland–Biddeford Metro Area, 514,098.

• The inventor Joseph Aspdin, of England, patented the basic process in 1824, naming it for the resemblance of the cement when set to portland stone, a limestone from the Isle of Portland.

• This summer, travelers can revolve their trip around food by visiting during the many events like the Portland Korean Food Festival or Portland Burger Week (where more than 30 restaurants compete to prove their $5 burger is the best) in August.

• PORTLAND, Ore. — A fatal shooting in Portland, Ore., over the weekend led President Trump to unleash a torrent of tweets and attacks on Sunday, capping a volatile week of street violence that is becoming a major theme in the final weeks of the 2020 campaign.

Portland sentence examples

• PORTLAND, Ore. — The federal agents facing a growing backlash for their militarized approach to weeks of unrest in Portland were not specifically trained in riot control or mass demonstrations, an internal Department of Homeland Security memo warned this week.

• PORTLAND, Ore. — A fatal shooting during a night of political conflict in Portland, Ore., has yet again escalated tensions in the city and further inflamed the issues of crime, protest and race that President Trump is trying to make a focus of presidential politics.

• After more than 50 nights of protests in Portland, prompted by the killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis in May, demonstrators in Portland are being met not only by local police officers, but also militarized federal agents deployed by Donald Trump.

• With one Portland protester severely injured in front of the federal courthouse and others pulled by unidentified federal agents into unmarked vans, the extraordinary campaign to subdue protesters has led to widespread condemnation of the federal response in Portland and beyond.