How to Use microphone in a Sentence
microphone
noun-
At the very end of the episode, Meghan and Harry had Archie take a turn on the microphone.
— Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2024 -
Press the microphone's off/on button at the top of the device.
— Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023 -
The iconography is all there: the smile, the waves of hair, the smile, the microphone and even the butterfly ring.
— Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023 -
Open the conversation and tap the microphone on the right side of the text field.
— Chris Smith, BGR, 3 Jan. 2023 -
For Flatland, the loudest cheers of the night came when Butts emerged from the wings with a microphone in hand.
— Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2024 -
At one point in the video, Lopez can be seen singing into a microphone.
— Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 24 July 2024 -
Next, press the microphone icon on the window that appears.
— Kim Komando, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2023 -
Not one to leave The Voice coach hanging, Carol picked up her own microphone and sang the rest of the verse with her.
— Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 28 Apr. 2023 -
The top has buttons to kill the camera and microphone and to adjust the volume.
— Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2022 -
Fain grabbed a microphone and jumped onto the bed of a Ram pickup.
— Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023 -
Some of the other folks on this tour were reserved in their approach to the microphone.
— Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024 -
Leaders cut the sound on the video feed and Zephyr remained on the floor holding her microphone.
— CBS News, 24 Apr. 2023 -
Schiff shucked the microphone and walked off with an impish smile.
— Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024 -
Our testers made a phone call to test the microphone and asked the person on the other end of the call how clear their voice sounded.
— Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 2 Feb. 2023 -
And Banks yelling into a microphone, giving us the blow-by-blow of the attacks.
— Derek Lawrence, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2023 -
Friends took to the microphone to remember Smith as a man who was always there for them.
— Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023 -
During the next few days, Danny, Irene, and Joe read large stacks of books into the microphone.
— David Owen, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2023 -
In her full uniform and pads, Collins began when, after the first few words, the microphone cut off.
— Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 23 Dec. 2022 -
Nonetheless, training camp has proved to not be the smoothest sailing for Rivera in front of the microphone.
— Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023 -
And now Schumer is giving the monied CEOs his chamber’s microphones.
— Matt Laslo, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023 -
In content shared by TMZ, the woman is shown to have a gash in her forehead where the microphone made contact.
— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2023 -
On your Echo device, find the button that looks like a microphone or a circle with a line through it.
— Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2022 -
The two women have some back and forth about the First Amendment before the woman in the black skirt tries, again, to wrestle the microphone away.
— Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2024 -
Rescue ships pinged the ocean with sonar in the hopes of detecting the shape of the vehicle, and listened for it with microphones.
— WIRED, 22 June 2023 -
Lined up one after the other, in front of a single microphone, the crowd cheered each speaker on.
— Wesley Parnell, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2024 -
Daring to be different on the design front, the 3-in-1 looks like a microphone, the Gamefrost is a stick-on fan, and the Dash Pro is a car dock.
— Simon Hill, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2024 -
Each asks shrewd questions, which the person at the microphone dodges with ease and fires back with a dagger that gets the press laughing.
— John Boyanoski, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022 -
After the photo, the president, 80, turned his back to the podium to lay the jersey down and Kelce scooted over to the microphone.
— Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 6 June 2023 -
Lavalier microphone setups like you’ve seen on late-night TV.
— Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024 -
Kassi Ashton believes that when she was born and her baby feet were pinched to see if her vocal cords worked, a microphone was also held to her mouth and a spotlight shined in her face.
— Ilana Kaplan, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2024
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