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
• The transponder signal has been silent since then, the data show.
  — Tom Schoenberg, Bloomberg.com, 14 July 2017
• 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
• According to 7News, the crocodile is not new to the area and has a tag on its tail and a transponder on its back.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
• 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
• It also is equipped with two active X-band transponders and one spare.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 8 July 2024
• 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
• In the third quarter, more than one million crossings were made each month without a transponder.
  — Sheldon S. Shafer, The Courier-Journal, 25 Oct. 2017
• 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
• Where facts end and the mystery begins is around 40 minutes into the flight when the plane’s transponder stopped transmitting.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Now, officials at the agency won’t be happy until all the marathon runners have an EZ-Pass transponder pasted to their foreheads.
  — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024