How to Use satellite dish in a Sentence
satellite dish
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That’s when the man jumped onto the satellite dish and tried to pull it off a pole.
—Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com, 29 Aug. 2019
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There was a satellite dish hanging by its cord on the roof.
—Becky Randel, PEOPLE.com, 12 Sep. 2017
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Joe met Bob in front of the house, by the giant satellite dish that’s now scabbed with rust and no longer linked to a satellite.
—Sean Flynn, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
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There's a a satellite dish and trash compactor in there, somewhere.
—Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2018
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The center's main concerns are the dozens of satellite dishes installed on the roof.
—Isadora Rangel, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2017
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The satellite dish that was a monument to his wealth mocks his decline.
—Sean Flynn, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
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At home, the family uses a satellite dish that costs $170 a month.
—Larry Fenn, The Denver Post, 10 June 2019
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Outside, vans with satellite dishes and TV-news logos ringed the block.
—Maureen O'Connor, The Cut, 5 June 2018
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Seen from roof height, the city looms as a vista of flat concrete roofs dotted with millions of satellite dishes.
—Declan Walsh, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
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Meanwhile, new releases are plucked from the ether using the satellite dish on the theater's roof.
—Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2019
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The original round version of the SpaceX Starlink satellite dish mounted on the roof of a rural home.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 22 Feb. 2023
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The house is older with curling shingles and vines growing on the roof wrapping around a satellite dish.
—Joe Guillen, Detroit Free Press, 9 Oct. 2020
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Like satellite dishes, the large rounded ears of African wild dogs swivel to detect minute sounds in the distance.
—National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2019
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The place came with a broken satellite dish that picked up three channels, one of which showed British poker nonstop.
—Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020
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The weapon, which looks like a satellite dish perched on a vehicle, showed promising results.
—Tim Elfrink, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2020
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Like the Fates pinching the thread of life, a robotic arm unspooled a thin copper wire for a self-assembling satellite dish.
—Wired, 11 Sep. 2019
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Each adds $500 a year for upgrades, like new generators, a satellite dish and HDTV.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
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Some of the biggest changes are around the unfertilised A site, specifically satellite dish and drop.
—Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
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The flat faces of certain owls, like the barn owl, act as a giant external ear — like a satellite dish — with the feathers directing the sound into the ear.
—New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
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Their work is done in a building whose roof is filled with huge satellite dishes and a golf ball-like polar satellite transceiver.
—Meg Jones, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2017
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The building’s roof was forested with aerials and satellite dishes.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
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This feature is great for telescopes and satellite dishes, but not so great when those mirrors are sitting in your car.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2018
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The student had gone around a fence that stopped at the ocean and walked onto the base to take photos, including an area with satellite dishes and antennae.
—Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 6 June 2020
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Inside each of these weather-resistant domes, sits a 60-foot satellite dish that scans the planet for the most dangerous weapons.
—CBS News, 24 Oct. 2017
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The state House of Representatives voted 83-61 to create a task force to study the best ways to prevent having too many satellite dishes on the roofs of homes.
—Christopher Keating, courant.com, 11 Apr. 2018
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It was housed in a former TV station with two giant satellite dishes out back instead of a playground.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 14 July 2022
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Customers who sign up for a two-year deal won’t have to pay for satellite dish installation and related costs.
—Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2018
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The Hawkeye is a command-and-control type aircraft with twin turboprops and a distinctive satellite dish affixed to the top of it.
—Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 1 Sep. 2020
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Criminal damaging: Slater Drive Someone cut a cable leading from a satellite dish to the inside of a house and taped a note to the home’s sliding glass door.
—Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 8 Nov. 2019
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Amid all this, more than 36 hours after the attack had begun, a member of the work crew at Krebs’ house managed to kick his satellite dish, knocking out his home’s internet connection.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
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