How to Use loudspeaker in a Sentence

loudspeaker

noun
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  • The voice from the loudspeaker urged me to get away from the windows.
    — Sandra Sidi, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The loudspeakers on the boat would project the music and the folks on shore would sing along.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Nov. 2019
  • To be summoned over the loudspeaker to help him in the bathroom.
    — Deborah Sontag, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The alarm squawks over the loudspeaker at the McCall Smokejumper Base.
    — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2023
  • Flags and signs waved as a loudspeaker blared the catchy campaign jingle of the Broad Front.
    — Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2019
  • But Paul Clement, the lawyer for the coach, said the prayer in the Texas case was made over a loudspeaker and thus was more intrusive.
    — Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Police could be heard calling out over loudspeakers to the man in the house.
    — David Owens, courant.com, 3 May 2018
  • Cheers and whoops drowned out the pop music blaring from the loudspeakers.
    — Laura Parker, WSJ, 14 May 2019
  • These days, as a voice on the loudspeaker said — and as anyone can see — it’s full of life and beauty.
    — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 25 June 2018
  • To be a bellringer was to be a human clock and the public loudspeaker.
    — Joseph Wilson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2024
  • And all the while on the loudspeaker, the voice of Louis Prima sang the same carol, the jazzy one about swinging Santa Claus.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Red-white-and-blue beach balls bounced atop the line, rock-concert style, as the Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd blared through loudspeakers.
    — Manny Fernandez, The Seattle Times, 22 Oct. 2018
  • The Colts' linebacker waved his arms in the air as his name blared over the loudspeaker, running out to the 50-yard line to raucous cheers.
    — Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Sep. 2023
  • After a while, there was a bing-bong over the loudspeakers, but nothing changed and no one moved.
    — Anne Enright, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2019
  • On the track, time for the women’s 200 meters, the announcer says over the loudspeaker.
    — Grace McCarty, SELF, 31 July 2024
  • Soon a voice on the loudspeaker at the funeral urged everyone to do the same...
    — Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2024
  • No loudspeaker blares, and that feat, in a book like this and times like these, feels remarkable.
    — The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2019
  • That's when the cabin crew took to the loudspeaker asking if there were any doctors on board.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Choi would not confirm the number of loudspeakers in place along the border.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 1 May 2018
  • Deputies tried to call Molina out of the home, both on the loudspeaker and via his cell phone, but Molina did not comply.
    — Megan Davis, Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2021
  • As the death toll neared 50, loudspeakers called for protesters to leave the border area.
    — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 15 May 2018
  • His brother spoke to him through a loudspeaker; his father left him a haiku.
    — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 16 June 2022
  • From the back of a pickup truck, a parish priest rolls through the neighborhood with a loudspeaker, blessing the sick and homebound.
    — CBS News, 8 May 2020
  • In the past, North Korea has shot at loudspeakers playing K-pop music from the South.
    — Li Zhou, Vox, 2 June 2024
  • From inside the compound, loudspeakers warned the crowd outside to keep away.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2020
  • The loudspeaker of a deputy's SUV blared orders for reporters to disperse.
    — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Soon after, the mullah, loud and angry, came over the mosque loudspeaker.
    — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Only when the loudspeakers call the end of break do the machines start up again, ready for their humans to feed them more packages.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 5 June 2019
  • Police also used heavy force against members of the media and used loudspeakers to shout profanities and insults at the crowds.
    — Sophiko Megrelidze, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024
  • To lend the appearance of vitality, junk cars driven by mannequins populated the parking lot to the backdrop of warbling holiday tapes played on low-fidelity loudspeakers.
    — Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic, 18 Dec. 2024

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