How to Use screen saver in a Sentence

screen saver

noun
  • Many have his smiling face as the screen saver on their iPhones.
    Karen Elliott House, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2019
  • The screen saver on Manuel’s phone is a photo of them as high school sweethearts in 1968.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Put these mantras on a mirror or use them as their screen saver.
    Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Maybe the city from the Apple TV screen saver, a generic grid twinkling below.
    Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
  • Gaze out toward the sunset, and a shoreline that's worthy of a screen saver stretches out in front of you.
    Marisa Spyker, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The screen saver on Marty’s laptop is a picture of Jordan.
    Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 13 June 2019
  • The second picture had the vivid green grass of a Microsoft Windows screen saver.
    Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Spa music played as water flowed on a Buddha screen saver.
    Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • There was a television on the wall with a two-hour screen saver-like stream of coral reef fish and relaxing music.
    Bowen West, idahostatesman, 9 May 2018
  • On the screen saver of her phone: A photo of her three young children 7,000 miles away, living with her mom in Addis Ababa.
    Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2021
  • In a setting right out of a screen saver, nearly every house was split open or heaved off its foundation.
    Bill Weir, CNN, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Or consider phones with MP3 playback, faceplates that snap on and off, configurable lights, and screen savers.
    Elle Decor Staff, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
  • Download it, and your computer can use its spare C.P.U. cycles to process proteins, displaying its work in progress as a screen saver.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2020
  • In the early days of computing, screen savers were a software solution to a hardware problem.
    Jacob Brogan, Slate Magazine, 31 July 2017
  • On its website, the church shared 18 Nativity images for members to retrieve and share or maybe use as a screen saver on their laptops, tablets or phones.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Before Flash, a PC user might have encountered on-screen animation only in the form of screen savers.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The lawsuit also claims that Nurmi used one of the photos as the screen saver on his office computer, and that visitors to his office could plainly see it.
    Michael Kiefer, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Further testimony revealed Miller even used a revealing image of the young girl as his screen saver.
    Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Not even his screen saver of cascading family scuba pics could hold my interest.
    Eli Burnstein, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
  • These relaxation techniques and stretches were made available on a screen saver to preempt repetitive use injuries.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2019
  • After a few minutes of inactivity, the Portal Go goes into an ambient mode, which shows a screen saver, the time, battery status, and weather.
    Christian De Looper, BGR, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Lewis admitted in one message to having child pornography as his screen saver and attempting to entice a neighbor's child over to his house, according to the affidavit.
    Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Lewis admitted in one message to having child pornography as his screen saver and attempting to entice a neighbor's child over to his house, according to the affidavit.
    Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Since the war began, Russian citizens have been detained for the most minor offenses, including an antiwar screen saver, holding up a blank piece of paper and a manicure in the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
    Irina Aleksander, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Khalifa, for example, was warmly greeted by his neighbors, displayed photos of neighbors’ children as his screen saver, and said he was engaged to a woman who worked as a housekeeper in the building.
    Charlie Savage, Declan Walsh and Dionne Searcey, miamiherald, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Swinging door-knocker earrings replaced classic pearl studs; powder blue and butter yellow cashmere twinsets were paired with fanny packs and flamboyant screen saver–print pants.
    Alexandra Gurvitch, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Using simple taps and intuitive gestures, the look of the watch can be further customized with different dials and optional colorful screen savers.
    Stephen Watson, Town & Country, 10 Nov. 2015
  • Millions of volunteers around the world have downloaded the SETI@home screen saver over the years, to help analyze radio telescope data and search for extraterrestrial intelligence, according to the group.
    David Williams, CNN, 5 Mar. 2020

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