How to Use satellite dish in a Sentence

satellite dish

noun

• That’s when the man jumped onto the satellite dish and tried to pull it off a pole.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• There was a satellite dish hanging by its cord on the roof.
  — Becky Randel, PEOPLE.com, 12 Sep. 2017
• Joe met Bob in front of the house, by the giant satellite dish that’s now scabbed with rust and no longer linked to a satellite.
  — Sean Flynn, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
• There's a a satellite dish and trash compactor in there, somewhere.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2018
• The center's main concerns are the dozens of satellite dishes installed on the roof.
  — Isadora Rangel, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2017
• The satellite dish that was a monument to his wealth mocks his decline.
  — Sean Flynn, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
• At home, the family uses a satellite dish that costs $170 a month.
  — Larry Fenn, The Denver Post, 10 June 2019
• Outside, vans with satellite dishes and TV-news logos ringed the block.
  — Maureen O'Connor, The Cut, 5 June 2018
• Seen from roof height, the city looms as a vista of flat concrete roofs dotted with millions of satellite dishes.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
• Meanwhile, new releases are plucked from the ether using the satellite dish on the theater's roof.
  — Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2019
• The original round version of the SpaceX Starlink satellite dish mounted on the roof of a rural home.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 22 Feb. 2023
• The house is older with curling shingles and vines growing on the roof wrapping around a satellite dish.
  — Joe Guillen, Detroit Free Press, 9 Oct. 2020
• Like satellite dishes, the large rounded ears of African wild dogs swivel to detect minute sounds in the distance.
  — National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2019
• The place came with a broken satellite dish that picked up three channels, one of which showed British poker nonstop.
  — Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020
• The weapon, which looks like a satellite dish perched on a vehicle, showed promising results.
  — Tim Elfrink, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2020
• Like the Fates pinching the thread of life, a robotic arm unspooled a thin copper wire for a self-assembling satellite dish.
  — Wired, 11 Sep. 2019
• Some of the biggest changes are around the unfertilised A site, specifically satellite dish and drop.
  — Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• The flat faces of certain owls, like the barn owl, act as a giant external ear — like a satellite dish — with the feathers directing the sound into the ear.
  — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Their work is done in a building whose roof is filled with huge satellite dishes and a golf ball-like polar satellite transceiver.
  — Meg Jones, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2017
• The building’s roof was forested with aerials and satellite dishes.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
• This feature is great for telescopes and satellite dishes, but not so great when those mirrors are sitting in your car.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2018
• The student had gone around a fence that stopped at the ocean and walked onto the base to take photos, including an area with satellite dishes and antennae.
  — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 6 June 2020
• Inside each of these weather-resistant domes, sits a 60-foot satellite dish that scans the planet for the most dangerous weapons.
  — CBS News, 24 Oct. 2017
• The state House of Representatives voted 83-61 to create a task force to study the best ways to prevent having too many satellite dishes on the roofs of homes.
  — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• It was housed in a former TV station with two giant satellite dishes out back instead of a playground.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 14 July 2022
• Customers who sign up for a two-year deal won’t have to pay for satellite dish installation and related costs.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2018
• The Hawkeye is a command-and-control type aircraft with twin turboprops and a distinctive satellite dish affixed to the top of it.
  — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 1 Sep. 2020
• Criminal damaging: Slater Drive Someone cut a cable leading from a satellite dish to the inside of a house and taped a note to the home’s sliding glass door.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 8 Nov. 2019
• An owl’s head features a round face, ringed with feathers, that has evolved to function a bit like a satellite dish—collecting sound and channeling it to ears hidden on the side of the face.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2022
• The fish is placed in a glass baking dish with apricots and fresh walnuts, and then the whole thing is suspended above an enormous mirrored structure that looks like a satellite dish.
  — Ann Abel, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024