How to Use loudspeaker in a Sentence

loudspeaker

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The loudspeaker has a unique and refined design with the bass drivers placed subtly on the sides of the cabinets.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The researchers placed loudspeakers along dying sections of the Great Barrier reef and played the sounds of a healthy coral reef.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2019
  • On the ship that day, more than 10 minutes elapsed before anyone even announced the fire over the ship’s loudspeaker.
    Megan Rose, ProPublica, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The shop also doctored a replica of the massive loudspeaker that gets installed on the car's roof.
    Talon Homer, Car and Driver, 14 June 2020
  • Lugging out mats and poles, assembling beams and loudspeakers, the crew has no easy set-up or break down.
    Michelle Cohan, CNN, 3 Oct. 2019
  • An address over the loudspeaker, warning that the match would not resume until the chants stopped, was met with whistles from the crowd.
    Andrew Dampf, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Set atop a metal base, the loudspeaker can have its angle changed by means of four height-adjustable spiked feet.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 28 May 2023
  • Officers used a loudspeaker to tell people to go into a park across the street.
    oregonlive, 16 June 2020
  • The iconic loudspeaker brand has been waking up the neighbors since 1949.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2021
  • In Wuhan, Adama hears an announcement being broadcast from a loudspeaker on the back of a truck driving through the city.
    Grace Hauck, USA Today, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Police cars patrol the few blocks that still show signs of life, reiterating the same message over their loudspeakers.
    Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2024

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