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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Carpoolers will need an E-ZPass Flex transponder to use the lanes without paying.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
• Muscat also said the Lifeline turned off its transponder to hide the ship’s location.
  — Washington Post, 27 June 2018
• Details on what the pass will be like – a transponder, or a sticker affixed to a windshield – have not been finalized.
  — al, 6 July 2022
• The ship’s radio transponder was turned off and its cargo holds were open, being filled with a white substance from waiting trucks.
  — Michael Biesecker, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2022
• The Times also established that the transponder stopped working before that missile hit the plane.
  — Mujib Mashal, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2020
• The Apollo 11 mission carried two transponders Miller helped with.
  — Kyra Haas, azcentral, 17 July 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024