How to Use pager in a Sentence

pager

noun

• Not to mention pagers and fax machines have largely gone the way of the dinosaur, too.
  — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023
• The device comes in two forms — one shaped like a pager and another that looks more like a watch.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
• The pager’s alarm-clock insistence, grating at the best of times, now bursts upon my eardrums like the siren of a squad car.
  — Eliezer J Sternberg, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2015
• Within nine minutes of the crash, Mr. Kallstrom felt his pager go off.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
• The one-pager helps tell the story of year-to-date progress and is a springboard to context for challenges, wins and market insights.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• Mikael Petrosyan, who has worked at Children’s for a decade, was on his way out to dinner with his wife when his pager beeped.
  — Lizzie Johnson, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
• At the end of the film, Danvers leaves Earth to find a new world for the Skrulls, but hands Fury a pager to call her from anywhere in the universe in case of emergencies.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 21 June 2023
• The quiet of my night on call was interrupted by the familiar chime of my pager.
  — Douglas G. Adler, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2021
• She was given a pager and Maxwell would take her shopping and buy her Louis Vuitton purses, Doe added.
  — Fox News, 4 July 2020
• But the diverse set of interest groups that proudly pasted their logo to the bill’s one-pager was even more striking.
  — Charlie Mitchell, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2020
• The Sunshine Protection Act would eliminate the need for changing the clocks to standard time for four months, according to a one-pager on the bill.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 3 Feb. 2022
• The big ballooning pleats and pooling hems of the ’90s signaled an indifference to the style, often serving as a place to clip one’s pager.
  — Isaiah Freeman-Schub, Robb Report, 28 June 2023
• If users are too close for comfort (and safety), their necklaces will begin to flash and vibrate much like a noisy cell phone or restaurant pager.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2020
• Fury used the pager at the end of Infinity War to call reinforcements just as he was snapped out of existence.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 3 June 2021
• Getting a message with a Dallas area code on his pager meant he was being called upon for stunt duty here.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
• The children knew their father’s pager would blow up whenever a helicopter flew by.
  — David Chanen, Star Tribune, 19 Aug. 2020
• Hours later, his birthday having dawned, Cruz was still partying when his pager went off.
  — Joe Sexton, ProPublica, 12 Oct. 2020
• When he was first imprisoned, people were using pagers.
  — Analisa Novak, CBS News, 11 May 2023
• When a painter portrayed him, the portrait depicted him jacketless, leaning against his desk, papers in hand, a pager hooked on a belt loop and a twinkle in his eye.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 2 Sep. 2022
• In an August 2017 six-pager to Wilke, Gagnon outlined a host of risks that stemmed from Amazon's breakneck growth and his security team's thin resources.
  — Will Evans, Wired, 18 Nov. 2021
• Players wear a pager-like tag which allows the robot to track their location on the field, and throw a ball accurately within inches.
  — Laura Stevens, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
• As an adult, Klater ran a cellphone and pager business, notarizing documents as an add-on to her services.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 21 Feb. 2021
• The stars aligned in early 2018 when my co-writers and co-producers put together a one-pager for her team about our concept, which thankfully is pretty identical to the final film.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2022
• Deaf employees were given vibrating pagers with numeric codes to notify them when notices were being sent out over the PA system.
  — Melina Walling, AZCentral.com, 5 Mar. 2023
• The Senate committee’s changes turned the 39-page bill into a two-pager that simply requires employers to give workers two hours off to vote during Georgia’s three weeks of early voting, instead of just on Election Day.
  — Ryan Teague Beckwith, Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• Minimal investments, like a pager system, kept coronavirus congregation at bay, making the cafe a safer place.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Sep. 2020
• In November 2018, Krasr featured prominently in one of the security division's memos, a draft of Carter's quarterly six-pager to Wilke and other top execs.
  — Will Evans, Wired, 18 Nov. 2021
• Some, such as spam laws and a law about unsolicited cell phone/pager text ads, specifically prohibit this kind of frequent text solicitations.
  — Talis Shelbourne, Journal Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2023
• In the past, that meant experimenting with trading via pagers, creating mobile apps, and improving the company’s websites.
  — Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
• The new value definition goes beyond the reference to a one-pager on a company’s website to a Corporate Social Responsibility setup.
  — Melanie Marten, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024