How to Use beeper in a Sentence

beeper

noun

• Put an old cell phone or beeper to good use too and clip it on your waistband to complete the look.
  — Caylin Harris, Country Living, 13 July 2020
• His study subjects carry a beeper with them for about a week.
  — Cassandra Willyard, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2015
• The caller said the beeper on the backhoe was really loud.
  — cleveland, 15 Oct. 2021
• Inez tells him she’s due to be moved to a new shelter but gives him her beeper number and vows to find him.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2023
• The person next to me is diabetic and wears a beeper that goes off all day long.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 5 June 2021
• For Skunk's time machine clue, the Men in Black unveiled a beeper showing the numbers 607.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 20 Oct. 2021
• When the beeper went off, the subjects jotted down what was going on in their minds just before.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2022
• Napoleon was at home sleeping on a Sunday morning when his beeper went off.
  — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2020
• Ask your co-worker if putting her beeper on vibrate would work for her, because the sound distracts you.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 5 June 2021
• Some vehicles and locations had CB radios, and there were a good many hand-helds and beepers.
  — Susan Harfouche, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
• A subject wears an earpiece and a beeper sounds at random intervals.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• The book is a dialogue built around eighteen moments in the mind of a beeper-wearing recent college graduate named Melanie.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
• Two beeper collars chimed to life, no GPS, just a compass hanging off his lanyard with a traditional flush counter.
  — Outdoor Life, 11 Nov. 2020
• When cell phones took over, Levy abdicated beepers and went into neon signage.
  — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 8 Jan. 2018
• Karen Maskarinec's beeper goes off when a nurse or social worker at Providence believes a patient nearing death will be alone.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2018
• At the meeting, as Ora’s allotted 1 minute concluded and the beeper sounded, no one stopped her from continuing to talk for nearly four.
  — Nanette Asimov, SFChronicle.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• Long before most of us had smart phones all but glued to our bodies, Hurlburt designed a beeper that research subjects wore in their ears and sounded randomly throughout the day.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2022
• Looking for what sticks and what doesn’t, looking for the lightening in a bottle that helped a guy who went away when beepers were all the rage and spent more than half his life in prison get through the noise and negativity online.
  — Helen Ubiñas, Philly.com, 17 July 2017
• Diaz wriggled into the jacket of his uniform and unfastened the Motorola beeper on his hip.
  — ProPublica, 9 Apr. 2021
• Talk of ultrasonic beepers that would ward off sharks mid-assault is everywhere.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2019
• Epstein's secretary would contact her by email, beeper or her family's landline to set up a meeting, Araoz said.
  — NBC News, 10 July 2019
• The beeper indicating when protons were flowing into their apparatus dated back five decades, said Brown, who helped find all the pieces.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Feb. 2021
• In 2012, Sims — former weld-grinder, former beeper salesman, soon-to-be former homebrewer – opened Sasquatch Brewing, and the brewpub quickly caught on in the Hillsdale neighborhood.
  — oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2022
• No one reported seeing a parachute before the aircraft crashed, bursting into flames, nor were beeper signals heard.
  — Kendall Trammell, CNN, 8 Aug. 2019
• Yet there was no denying the radio-directional equipment, which located the satellite beeper directly in the center of town.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 26 June 2019
• Even doctors, the lone significant holdout for the technology, are giving up their beepers.
  — David Becker, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2006
• The days of coordinating criminal activity by beeper and pay phone are long gone.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2021
• Sarah tries a new, more aggressive tack, one that involves a beeper and lists and a schedule and, for the audience’s benefit at least as much as Joe’s, an audiotape explaining his situation.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2022
• The developer also agreed to prevent delivery trucks and other vehicles from using back-up beepers on the site west of the front facade of the grocery building and adjacent tenant spaces.
  — Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 2 Mar. 2018
• Speaking animatedly above the incessant back-up beeper of a nearby mini-forklift, Bolton surmised the hectic scene looking a little like someone who still couldn't believe his good fortune.
  — Rosemary Feitelberg | Wwd, latimes.com, 7 May 2018

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024