How to Use pager in a Sentence

pager

noun
  • Give me a one-pager, his chief said.
    — Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • There are some stories in there that are typed eight-pagers.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • With one line, Jay-Z made two-way pagers iconic.
    — Jesse Kirshbaum, SPIN, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Some are panic-buying walkie-talkies, paper maps, and even pagers.
    — Nathan Hodge, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The device comes in two forms — one shaped like a pager and another that looks more like a watch.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
  • By comparison, this type of plan ends up being just a one-pager.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Not to mention pagers and fax machines have largely gone the way of the dinosaur, too.
    — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The one-pagers gave managers a more concise way to share the topline messaging.
    — Elizabeth Baskin, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The quiet of my night on call was interrupted by the familiar chime of my pager.
    — Douglas G. Adler, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The pager’s alarm-clock insistence, grating at the best of times, now bursts upon my eardrums like the siren of a squad car.
    — Eliezer J Sternberg, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2015
  • Lawmakers also pointed out that the one-pager was unsigned and simply a chart.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The process includes multiple tones to activate pagers and sirens, as well as a return tone.
    — Jessica Riley, CBS News, 3 June 2026
  • The children knew their father’s pager would blow up whenever a helicopter flew by.
    — David Chanen, Star Tribune, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Hours later, his birthday having dawned, Cruz was still partying when his pager went off.
    — Joe Sexton, ProPublica, 12 Oct. 2020
  • In January of 1993, my office beeped me on my pager.
    — Rick Davis, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Israel also blew up pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah members, killing dozens of people.
    — Charbel Mallo, CNN Money, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Getting a message with a Dallas area code on his pager meant he was being called upon for stunt duty here.
    — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The one-pager helps tell the story of year-to-date progress and is a springboard to context for challenges, wins and market insights.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
  • But the diverse set of interest groups that proudly pasted their logo to the bill’s one-pager was even more striking.
    — Charlie Mitchell, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Mikael Petrosyan, who has worked at Children’s for a decade, was on his way out to dinner with his wife when his pager beeped.
    — Lizzie Johnson, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • If users are too close for comfort (and safety), their necklaces will begin to flash and vibrate much like a noisy cell phone or restaurant pager.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2020
  • An age where cable TV was the growing, modern presence, and flip phones and pagers were cutting edge.
    — The Athletic Nba Staff, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Many are turning to more low-tech options, with Russians buying old-school technology like walkie-talkies and pagers.
    — Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 19 Mar. 2026
  • As an adult, Klater ran a cellphone and pager business, notarizing documents as an add-on to her services.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Players wear a pager-like tag which allows the robot to track their location on the field, and throw a ball accurately within inches.
    — Laura Stevens, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The pager operation showed that Israel was only a few inches away from Hezbollah’s femoral artery.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Claude spent a few minutes searching for information on me before compiling its research into a one-pager.
    — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Fury used the pager at the end of Infinity War to call reinforcements just as he was snapped out of existence.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 3 June 2021
  • She was given a pager and Maxwell would take her shopping and buy her Louis Vuitton purses, Doe added.
    — Fox News, 4 July 2020
  • When a painter portrayed him, the portrait depicted him jacketless, leaning against his desk, papers in hand, a pager hooked on a belt loop and a twinkle in his eye.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 2 Sep. 2022

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