How to Use wire service in a Sentence

wire service

noun
  • The story was reported by several wire services.
  • Some have even went so far as to find tiny masks for their pets, the wire service said.
    Allen Kim, CNN, 15 Mar. 2020
  • Zenger News, a digital wire service, was the first to report the news.
    Jazmin Goodwin, CNN, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The story was soon picked up by wire services and was published around the country.
    Kelly Kazek, AL.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Now, said the wire service, a second female at the zoo is pregnant.
    Fox News, 28 July 2018
  • One of the cars allegedly failed to stop at a blinking light, according to the wire service.
    Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 1 May 2018
  • Do not go through a wire service, or a call center masquerading as a store.
    Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Richemont saw its stock prices rise by 3.8 percent, according to the news wire service.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2021
  • As a result, all of the wire service’s staffers, including Zimbrakos, were laid off.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2022
  • The story was picked up by a few wire services, generated a hot take on some call-in shows, but had the shelf life of loaf of Wonder Bread.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 8 July 2019
  • Some fifty thousand words from the major wire services followed.
    Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
  • With the streak ended, the paper could save money by relying on a wire service to report on road games.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Gladney’s boyfriend, Michael Branch, 39, of Hawthorne, was also a passenger in the car, the wire service reported.
    Melissa Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2022
  • Word spread through newspaper food sections and wire services, then Woman’s Day magazine bought the rights to the book.
    Bonnie S. Benwick, Washington Post, 7 June 2019
  • Long told the wire service that the cuts were made in rural areas or with underused halfway houses.
    Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Photos taken by wire services on the same day show a massive ash pillar looming over the region.
    Jason Aldag, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2018
  • These wire services drive most of our visual news consumption.
    Kainaz Amaria, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
  • The group went even further, using a news wire service to publish a story about the fake protest on the Arizona Republic’s website.
    Donie O'Sullivan, CNN, 26 July 2023
  • The motion argues the bribery and wire services charges would require a quid pro quo act in which Person used his authority as an Auburn coach.
    Chris White, The Courier-Journal, 9 Mar. 2018
  • This video was made from on-the-ground footage shot by Chronicle and wire service reporters and photographers who were working within feet of the flames.
    Guy Wathen, SFChronicle.com, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The opening comes two months after the government initially planned to lift its entry ban on Dec. 1, the wire service noted.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Soldin, 32, was a video coordinator with the French wire service, AFP said.
    Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Bloomberg then grew the business to include a financial news arm, which has morphed into a major news wire service.
    Kathleen Ronayne, The Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2020
  • By the time that story landed, Buzbee had moved to New York to direct the wire service as its executive editor.
    Washington Post, 19 May 2021
  • That’s just 62 out of all the broadcast, newspaper, wire service, and digital reporters.
    Nikki Usher, Slate Magazine, 12 July 2017
  • So far this year, more than 2,000 square miles have already burned in a fire season that got an unusually early start, Gov. Gavin Newsom told the wire service.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 27 Aug. 2020
  • The editor of the North Bay Nugget immediately put the amazing news out on the wire service, then sent a reporter and a photographer to the farmhouse.
    Gillian Brockell, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Staff writer Bill Laitner compiled this story from Free Press and wire service reports.
    From Staff Reports, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2020
  • Material from Globe wire services was used in this report.
    Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
  • An Ankara source told the wire service Abramovich and other wealthy Russians are considering investing in the country.
    Courtney Vinopal, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2022

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