How to Use flat-screen in a Sentence

flat-screen

adjective
  • The video would be shown on a flat-screen on the wall to my right.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The speakers and body covering are from an old flat-screen TV.
    Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Highlights and archived footage play on numerous flat-screen TVs.
    George Richards, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
  • More casual gamers can watch the action from the safety of a flat-screen or remotely check out a Twitch livestream.
    Vincent Moleski, Sacramento Bee, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The restaurant features booths, tables and a bar with flat-screen televisions.
    Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Knowing where your studs are is crucial for hanging up heavy items, like mirrors or mounts for flat-screen TVs.
    Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2023
  • With art and mirrors on the walls instead of flat-screen TVs, the rooms feel wonderfully low-tech; plans for an onsite library are in the works.
    Elizabeth Nicholas, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2023
  • My attention wandered to one of Ecolog’s two large flat-screen televisions.
    Fred Bahnson, Harper's Magazine, 1 July 2022
  • But in the last year consumers caught breaks in such categories as technology — think flat-screen TVs and sound bars — and some foods such as poultry.
    Emma Kumer, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The program enrollees sat on couches covered with gray sheets watching the flat-screen television.
    Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2023
  • Available in dark and light wood, this stunning commercial-grade piece can hold a flat-screen TV as large as 80 inches wide, and has three sections with two-tier shelving.
    Thomas Hindle, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Here's the best way to clean any kind of flat-screen TV without ruining it or ending up pesky little streaks, along with some useful tips on how to scrub down the accessories that make movie nights possible.
    Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Authorities said the cause of that fire was believed to be an electrical issue with a flat-screen television in the living room, WUSA reported.
    Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 1 July 2023
  • Shoppers across the country fight off the post-Thanksgiving food coma to score major markdowns on everything from flat-screen TVs to kitchen appliances.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
  • Thanksgiving used to be about being thankful and just being happy to have your health and your family, but now, people are trying to kill each other for a flat-screen television.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Majors' face was beamed Tuesday onto a flat-screen monitor in front of the judge's bench in Manhattan's domestic violence courtroom.
    CBS News, 9 May 2023
  • Majors’ face was beamed Tuesday onto a flat-screen monitor in front of the judge’s bench in Manhattan’s domestic violence courtroom.
    Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 9 May 2023
  • The rooms are spacious, comfortable, and equipped with all the modern amenities, including flat-screen TVs, high-speed internet, and luxurious bedding.
    Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
  • What the Rohs find on their travels — elevators, indoor plumbing, flat-screen TVs and Americans who are friendly rather than murderous — astounds them.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Onstage, Reich was confronted not by the usual crowd primed with cocktails but by an enormous flat-screen monitor, which displayed thirty-odd homebound viewers in a checkerboard of Zoom squares.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The workers, all based in the Philippines and projected onto flat-screen monitors via Zoom, are summoned when an often unwitting customer approaches.
    Stefanos Chen, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • There's also a flat-screen television, solar panels, and electrical outlets.
    Emma Pearson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2023
  • More recently, some flat-screen TV developers have turned the screens of large-format TVs into speakers using a similar principle.
    IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2024
  • This usually involves a retailer raising the price on a particular item — say a flat-screen TV — for a short period, only to mark it down to the original price while marketing it as a limited-time, steep discount.
    Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Manufacturers usually list the weight capacity of their products, but flat-screen TVs are so lightweight that a stand’s capacity doesn’t really come into play for that alone.
    Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Marcus Malone, a flat-screen television was hooked up to cable, which allowed the student-athletes to review their state championship victory with expert, analytical eyes and minds.
    Scott Talley, Detroit Free Press, 7 May 2023
  • Then the pandemic turned many homes into de facto entertainment centers—flat-screen television set, surround-sound systems, wall sconce lighting—while streaming services provided robust viewing options.
    James S. Hirsch | Photographs By Allie Leepson + Jesse McClary For The Wall Street Journal , WSJ, 26 May 2023
  • One possibility scientists are exploring for next-generation flat-screen displays are metasurfaces, which are engineered to possess features not generally found in nature, such as the ability to bend light in unexpected ways.
    IEEE Spectrum, 10 Mar. 2023
  • In the museum lobby, an ordinary flat-screen TV mounted on an easel runs a two-dimensional video walk-through of a three-dimensional virtual reality construction, which shows an ordinary, unexceptional corner market.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023

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