How to Use screen saver in a Sentence

screen saver

noun

• Many have his smiling face as the screen saver on their iPhones.
  — Karen Elliott House, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2019
• The screen saver on Manuel’s phone is a photo of them as high school sweethearts in 1968.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• Put these mantras on a mirror or use them as their screen saver.
  — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2021
• Maybe the city from the Apple TV screen saver, a generic grid twinkling below.
  — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• Gaze out toward the sunset, and a shoreline that's worthy of a screen saver stretches out in front of you.
  — Marisa Spyker, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2021
• The screen saver on Marty’s laptop is a picture of Jordan.
  — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 13 June 2019
• The second picture had the vivid green grass of a Microsoft Windows screen saver.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• Spa music played as water flowed on a Buddha screen saver.
  — Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• There was a television on the wall with a two-hour screen saver-like stream of coral reef fish and relaxing music.
  — Bowen West, idahostatesman, 9 May 2018
• On the screen saver of her phone: A photo of her three young children 7,000 miles away, living with her mom in Addis Ababa.
  — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2021
• In a setting right out of a screen saver, nearly every house was split open or heaved off its foundation.
  — Bill Weir, CNN, 23 Sep. 2017
• Or consider phones with MP3 playback, faceplates that snap on and off, configurable lights, and screen savers.
  — Elle Decor Staff, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
• Download it, and your computer can use its spare C.P.U. cycles to process proteins, displaying its work in progress as a screen saver.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2020
• In the early days of computing, screen savers were a software solution to a hardware problem.
  — Jacob Brogan, Slate Magazine, 31 July 2017
• On its website, the church shared 18 Nativity images for members to retrieve and share or maybe use as a screen saver on their laptops, tablets or phones.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Dec. 2022
• Before Flash, a PC user might have encountered on-screen animation only in the form of screen savers.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
• The lawsuit also claims that Nurmi used one of the photos as the screen saver on his office computer, and that visitors to his office could plainly see it.
  — Michael Kiefer, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2017
• Further testimony revealed Miller even used a revealing image of the young girl as his screen saver.
  — Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2022
• Not even his screen saver of cascading family scuba pics could hold my interest.
  — Eli Burnstein, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
• These relaxation techniques and stretches were made available on a screen saver to preempt repetitive use injuries.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2019
• After a few minutes of inactivity, the Portal Go goes into an ambient mode, which shows a screen saver, the time, battery status, and weather.
  — Christian De Looper, BGR, 27 Dec. 2021
• Lewis admitted in one message to having child pornography as his screen saver and attempting to entice a neighbor's child over to his house, according to the affidavit.
  — Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2022
• Lewis admitted in one message to having child pornography as his screen saver and attempting to entice a neighbor's child over to his house, according to the affidavit.
  — Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2023
• Since the war began, Russian citizens have been detained for the most minor offenses, including an antiwar screen saver, holding up a blank piece of paper and a manicure in the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
  — Irina Aleksander, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2022
• Khalifa, for example, was warmly greeted by his neighbors, displayed photos of neighbors’ children as his screen saver, and said he was engaged to a woman who worked as a housekeeper in the building.
  — Charlie Savage, Declan Walsh and Dionne Searcey, miamiherald, 24 Apr. 2018
• Swinging door-knocker earrings replaced classic pearl studs; powder blue and butter yellow cashmere twinsets were paired with fanny packs and flamboyant screen saver–print pants.
  — Alexandra Gurvitch, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2017
• Using simple taps and intuitive gestures, the look of the watch can be further customized with different dials and optional colorful screen savers.
  — Stephen Watson, Town & Country, 10 Nov. 2015
• Millions of volunteers around the world have downloaded the SETI@home screen saver over the years, to help analyze radio telescope data and search for extraterrestrial intelligence, according to the group.
  — David Williams, CNN, 5 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024