How to Use mike in a Sentence

mike

1 of 2 noun
  • The announcer was wearing a mike.
  • Sound checks were normally just a quick test of the mikes.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • There’s cameras and a man holding a boom mike who’s ready to go home.
    — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 26 July 2017
  • Williamson and a buddy were hosting an open-mike jam session.
    — Nathaniel Wilder, Smithsonian, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Two sound engineers balance their boom mikes on their heads.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Jan. 2026
  • And one of the rappers had part of his rap cut off/quieted when his mike shifted.
    — Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 20 May 2018
  • Open mikes were like that because they would be used to acoustic sets and everything.
    — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Her words were amplified by Ginsburg’s body mike, and the crowd laughed.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2019
  • And then a dozen students trooped up to a bank of shortwave radios and read their questions into the mike.
    — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Church had multiple mike stands placed at various sides (and used them often).
    — George Paul, Orange County Register, 1 Apr. 2017
  • Morgan also plays at many local venues, open-mike nights and festivals.
    — Melissa Whatley, baltimoresun.com, 9 July 2019
  • The animal went for his throat, and while Horn tried to beat him off with his mike, the tiger held on to his neck and dragged him off stage.
    — Washington Post, 9 May 2020
  • Alarmed, co-owner Jim Cooper grabbed a mike and begged for mercy, to little avail.
    — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Inexplicably, Hochuli gets on his mike for what should have been a confirmation of the call on the field.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • There’s the mike linebacker, which is Dorian Etheridge’s position, and the free and strong safeties.
    — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Timmons said, explaining the difference between being a mike linebacker and playing on the weak side or the strong side.
    — Omar Kelly, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 July 2017
  • McCarthy arrived with $45 in cash, and Atwood signed her up for an open mike night in a comedy club.
    — David A. Keeps, Good Housekeeping, 6 Nov. 2012
  • Toward the end of the ride, fellow docents sang her a farewell song before Pfaff took the mike back for her detailed instructions about lost and found.
    — Beth Spotswood, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2018
  • In the early 70s he got turned on to autoharps while participating in cross-genre open-mike series.
    — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 21 June 2018
  • Swedien meticulously set up the microphones, telling how Streisand would bring her own mike to the recording studio.
    — Hannah Sayle, Star Tribune, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Now, 10 years after forging an indelible mark as a songwriter, Renea is stepping up to the mike as a singer, too.
    — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Kwyn approached Colón with the idea to host her event after attending previous open mikes held at the Breathing Room.
    — Matt Harvey, Chicago Reader, 25 June 2018
  • When the panel's host Patton Oswalt asked for fan questions, the first person to walk up to the mike was none other than Purser.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 23 July 2017
  • Again and again, one of the hapless souls onstage will step up to the mike and lead a Dylan classic in a voice that suggests not thought, but deepest feeling made audible.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The armature around the scenes—cameras and mikes and props, along with the people who operate and manage them—adds to the austere, theatrical atmosphere.
    — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Honnold was also fitted with a mike, and his intermittent comments remained brightly impersonal.
    — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • There are no rock concert-style hand mikes or microphone stands as in the original, and the energetic, ritualistic dancing in this production is unique.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Gail Mishkin, who oversees events and marketing for the La Cañada store, arranged a day of readings, open mike sessions and activities for all.
    — Sara Cardine, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
  • Coyle knit three prototypes, and within a few days the group had named it the Pussyhat, a reference to Trump’s hot-mike moment with Billy Bush.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
  • But, where Notaro used the format to dramatize long anecdotes, Mintz’s special is mainly just him, in a red T-shirt and glasses, talking into a mike.
    — Emma Allen, New Yorker, 22 June 2026

mike

2 of 2 verb
  • But nobody had filmed a team for an entire season, let alone miked up a quarterback for every game, and on their off-days, too.
    — Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
  • During the bottom of the first, both Freeman and Betts were miked up, razzing each other between each pitch.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
  • Gold didn’t want the actors miked, so dots inconspicuously placed microphones in ceiling corners.
    — Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 12 June 2024
  • So while the studio tracks served as backing tracks, the band's instruments were also miked and plugged in during the filming, and the actors had a bit of room to experiment.
    — Town & Country, 10 Mar. 2023
  • West miked the guitar five different ways, capturing different elements of the sound in each track, giving them the ability to make that guitar sound bigger on playback.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Max Weinberg’s drums were miked especially hot, giving the material a backbone that hit particularly hard throughout.
    — Marc Hirsh, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
  • From miking up coaches to expanding games across the border, the Big 12 Conference wants to go where no other has before — commercially and geographically.
    — Irving Mejia-Hilario, Dallas News, 3 July 2023

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