How to Use loudspeaker in a Sentence

loudspeaker

noun
  • Don’t be that guest whose name is called over the loudspeaker at the end of the day.
    — Amanda Eyre Ward, Bon Appétit, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The voice from the loudspeaker urged me to get away from the windows.
    — Sandra Sidi, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Sara had just sat him down on her lap again when a metallic voice came on the loudspeaker.
    — Laila Lalami, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The loudspeakers on the boat would project the music and the folks on shore would sing along.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Just like old times, Bon Jovi blared over the loudspeakers.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 19 Jan. 2026
  • To be summoned over the loudspeaker to help him in the bathroom.
    — Deborah Sontag, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Police could be heard calling out over loudspeakers to the man in the house.
    — David Owens, courant.com, 3 May 2018
  • His brother spoke to him through a loudspeaker; his father left him a haiku.
    — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 16 June 2022
  • Many people rushed toward the stage as soon as his name was called over the loudspeakers.
    — Sam Morgen, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Cheers and whoops drowned out the pop music blaring from the loudspeakers.
    — Laura Parker, WSJ, 14 May 2019
  • Music piped through a loudspeaker, and the boys began to dance.
    — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • After a while, there was a bing-bong over the loudspeakers, but nothing changed and no one moved.
    — Anne Enright, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2019
  • No loudspeaker blares, and that feat, in a book like this and times like these, feels remarkable.
    — The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Haitian music blared through the loudspeakers.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 June 2026
  • To be a bellringer was to be a human clock and the public loudspeaker.
    — Joseph Wilson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2024
  • One at a time each boy hears his name over the loudspeaker, over the music, and pops out of the team huddle.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 1 July 2017
  • That's when the cabin crew took to the loudspeaker asking if there were any doctors on board.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Then the loudspeaker crackles and the voice of the principal fills the room.
    — TIME.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Imagine sitting down in a room with an iPad, a screen and loudspeakers.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Choi would not confirm the number of loudspeakers in place along the border.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 1 May 2018
  • From inside the compound, loudspeakers warned the crowd outside to keep away.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Soon after, the mullah, loud and angry, came over the mosque loudspeaker.
    — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Soon the music stops, and an announcement comes over the loudspeaker.
    — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 4 July 2019
  • The loudspeaker commentators who narrate the races have to do too much of the work for us.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 June 2025
  • The energy starts to build as the messages begin to stream in over the loudspeaker.
    — Laura Moorhead, WIRED, 28 Apr. 2007
  • James would play it on set through loudspeakers during certain moments of the filming.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • On TV, the sound of the song coming from the loudspeakers seemed louder than the crowd.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Flags and signs waved as a loudspeaker blared the catchy campaign jingle of the Broad Front.
    — Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2019
  • You were then read the day’s news by a loudspeaker or learned of the world’s goings-on via a television machine.
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The song came over the loudspeaker and the room — parents, kids, hipsters — erupted in singing and laughter.
    — David Bauder, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024

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