How to Use satellite dish in a Sentence

satellite dish

noun
  • That’s when the man jumped onto the satellite dish and tried to pull it off a pole.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Less than an hour after the wolf was unveiled, the satellite dish was stolen.
    — Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 13 Aug. 2024
  • There's a a satellite dish and trash compactor in there, somewhere.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2018
  • An electric line snakes in from a nearby pole, and a satellite dish glints in the sun.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Think of it like how a satellite dish can both rotate and move up and down to better face the sky.
    — James Peckham, PC Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The satellite dish that was a monument to his wealth mocks his decline.
    — Sean Flynn, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The center's main concerns are the dozens of satellite dishes installed on the roof.
    — Isadora Rangel, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The weapon, which looks like a satellite dish perched on a vehicle, showed promising results.
    — Tim Elfrink, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Seen from roof height, the city looms as a vista of flat concrete roofs dotted with millions of satellite dishes.
    — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The house is older with curling shingles and vines growing on the roof wrapping around a satellite dish.
    — Joe Guillen, Detroit Free Press, 9 Oct. 2020
  • The building’s roof was forested with aerials and satellite dishes.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • At home, the family uses a satellite dish that costs $170 a month.
    — Larry Fenn, The Denver Post, 10 June 2019
  • Joe met Bob in front of the house, by the giant satellite dish that’s now scabbed with rust and no longer linked to a satellite.
    — Sean Flynn, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Some breeze-block homes – like theirs – are in poor shape but habitable, their rusty satellite dishes gazing at hazy blue skies.
    — Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Meanwhile, new releases are plucked from the ether using the satellite dish on the theater's roof.
    — Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2019
  • This feature is great for telescopes and satellite dishes, but not so great when those mirrors are sitting in your car.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2018
  • Outside, vans with satellite dishes and TV-news logos ringed the block.
    — Maureen O'Connor, The Cut, 5 June 2018
  • Their work is done in a building whose roof is filled with huge satellite dishes and a golf ball-like polar satellite transceiver.
    — Meg Jones, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Customers who sign up for a two-year deal won’t have to pay for satellite dish installation and related costs.
    — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Like satellite dishes, the large rounded ears of African wild dogs swivel to detect minute sounds in the distance.
    — National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2019
  • Installation of a satellite dish is required.
    — Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Some of the biggest changes are around the unfertilised A site, specifically satellite dish and drop.
    — Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Like the Fates pinching the thread of life, a robotic arm unspooled a thin copper wire for a self-assembling satellite dish.
    — Wired, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Many of the games that are hard to find today would have been impossible to watch a couple decades ago without massive satellite dishes.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Of late, SpaceX has been allowing customers to rent satellite dishes rather than buy them outright.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • It was housed in a former TV station with two giant satellite dishes out back instead of a playground.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 14 July 2022
  • That scalability makes the process ideal for large aerospace parts like satellite dishes.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The student had gone around a fence that stopped at the ocean and walked onto the base to take photos, including an area with satellite dishes and antennae.
    — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 6 June 2020
  • The fourth artwork was a howling wolf on a white satellite dish in the Peckham borough of South London.
    — Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The flat faces of certain owls, like the barn owl, act as a giant external ear — like a satellite dish — with the feathers directing the sound into the ear.
    — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023

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