Sentence examples for were movable from inspiring English sources
adjective
Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine.
Originally heddles were movable rods, but later cords, wires, or steel bands were used.
Mr. Kovner, representing the church, said the pews in the sanctuary were movable — they could be taken out for a catering event and put back for worship services.
He is best known for his series Sand Dunes, in which he posed children and adults in the dunes near his home and photographed them as if they were movable pieces in a giant film set.
Mr. Grafton explained that "the letters were movable, in the sense that they were individual and were fitted into forms, but not in the normally used sense of being hard, identical or virtually identical objects created uniformly and used uniformly".
It is not the kind of flexibility that was epitomized in the 1970's by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano's original scheme for the Pompidou Center in Paris, in which the floors and walls were movable.
These elements probably were movable, but today we are not able to understand their function.
Gail: My Romney is Movable Mitt.
Mr Blatter was movable after all.
"It should be movable anywhere and still be protected.
"Everything we are doing is movable and flexible," Beller explained.
Motion, we say, is the fulfilment of the movable in so far as it is movable.
