How to Use transponder in a Sentence

transponder

noun

• When the nose of the car is on the bricks, the transponder hits.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2021
• Next year, the rate will change so that pay-by-plate rate is twice the amount for transponders, which is less than the cash rate.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• The transponder signal has been silent since then, the data show.
  — Tom Schoenberg, Bloomberg.com, 14 July 2017
• Should any transponder be placed in an item of clothing?
  — Carlton Reid, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2021
• F-35s are equipped with transponders that allow the aircraft to be tracked.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
• The video likely explains why the plane's transponder failed before the plane crashed.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2020
• About 4 million of those each month do not have transponders.
  — Adam Vaccaro, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
• According to 7News, the crocodile is not new to the area and has a tag on its tail and a transponder on its back.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
• The transponder tied to the hornet in question only had a usable life of about 12 hours.
  — Author: Thomas Clouse, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2020
• Once its stop in South Africa became known, the vessel turned off its transponder.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 27 June 2023
• After the trip, due to a design defect, the transponder was not able to power back up.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 29 Jan. 2018
• The agency said 467 people were using the EZ-Pass transponders for free.
  — Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
• The lanes will be free for carpoolers with three or more people aboard and who have a toll transponder set to HOV.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
• It also is equipped with two active X-band transponders and one spare.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 8 July 2024
• For drivers who don’t have a SunPass transponder, they are charged via their pay-by-plate.
  — Johnny Diaz, Sun-Sentinel.com, 21 June 2018
• Drivers who don’t have E-ZPass transponders will have their license plates scanned and bills mailed to their homes.
  — Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 19 July 2019
• The transponder that was on the F-35 would have helped locate it, but the Marine Corps hasn't said whether the device was functioning.
  — Ellie Kaufman, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2023
• Drivers will be required to have transponders in order to use the express lanes.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
• Fishermen might put the ID of an oil tanker on a transponder for their nets to warn away other vessels.
  — Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• But not all ships are required to carry transponders, and some captains switch them off.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• Cables and transponders must be laid along the length of tracks, which only could be done during outages.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
• Each car has a tiny transponder inside and wires are embedded by the start/finish line.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2021
• In the third quarter, more than one million crossings were made each month without a transponder.
  — Sheldon S. Shafer, The Courier-Journal, 25 Oct. 2017
• The American drone downed by Iran on June 20th appeared not to have its public transponder switched on.
  — The Economist, 19 July 2019
• The Audi e-tron was the first to get the transponder sourced from Gentex, the same company that gave us self-dimming rearview mirrors.
  — Motormouth Bob Weber, Star Tribune, 4 June 2021
• For a car without a transponder, a camera photographs the license plate, and the owner gets a bill in the mail or pays online.
  — Scott Calvert, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• Where facts end and the mystery begins is around 40 minutes into the flight when the plane’s transponder stopped transmitting.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
• Up in the cockpit, Captain Takahama called for emergency squawk code 7700 on the transponder.
  — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
• The antenna beams radio waves from Earth, which Juno’s transponder receives and sends back.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 7 Mar. 2018
• The ships, which included one missile frigate and two support vessels, could be tracked almost on real time thanks to signals sent by their transponders, which these companies track as part of their services.
  — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 12 June 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024