How to Use screen saver in a Sentence

screen saver

noun
  • Put these mantras on a mirror or use them as their screen saver.
    — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The phone’s screen saver was the first sign that something was wrong.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Many have his smiling face as the screen saver on their iPhones.
    — Karen Elliott House, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2019
  • And Francine Turner looked at her son’s face on her phone’s screen saver.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 24 May 2024
  • In a setting right out of a screen saver, nearly every house was split open or heaved off its foundation.
    — Bill Weir, CNN, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Gaze out toward the sunset, and a shoreline that's worthy of a screen saver stretches out in front of you.
    — Marisa Spyker, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2021
  • This manicure reminds me of an old-school computer screen saver.
    — Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 7 Mar. 2026
  • There was a television on the wall with a two-hour screen saver-like stream of coral reef fish and relaxing music.
    — Bowen West, idahostatesman, 9 May 2018
  • The screen saver on Manuel’s phone is a photo of them as high school sweethearts in 1968.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Not even his screen saver of cascading family scuba pics could hold my interest.
    — Eli Burnstein, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The second picture had the vivid green grass of a Microsoft Windows screen saver.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Maybe the city from the Apple TV screen saver, a generic grid twinkling below.
    — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
  • In the early days of computing, screen savers were a software solution to a hardware problem.
    — Jacob Brogan, Slate Magazine, 31 July 2017
  • Further testimony revealed Miller even used a revealing image of the young girl as his screen saver.
    — Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2022
  • These relaxation techniques and stretches were made available on a screen saver to preempt repetitive use injuries.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2019
  • Or consider phones with MP3 playback, faceplates that snap on and off, configurable lights, and screen savers.
    — Elle Decor Staff, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
  • The screen saver plays a NASA graphic in which the Earth goes from green to yellow to orange to red, again and again.
    — Roy Scranton august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Transitioning into a screen saver, your apps recede, and the screen either fades to black (for pre-Sonoma screen savers) or dissolves to the screen saver video.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Roku is turning its famed Roku City screen saver into a stage for pop stars, and the company has tapped Lovato as the first artist set to take over.
    — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Before Flash, a PC user might have encountered on-screen animation only in the form of screen savers.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
  • On its website, the church shared 18 Nativity images for members to retrieve and share or maybe use as a screen saver on their laptops, tablets or phones.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Apart from that, the broadcast was watchable, like a handsome screen saver, without being interesting in any of the ways the announcer or producers promised.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The lawsuit also claims that Nurmi used one of the photos as the screen saver on his office computer, and that visitors to his office could plainly see it.
    — Michael Kiefer, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Mirren, who is also a stepmother to Hackford’s son Alex, 46, keeps Rio’s picture as her screen saver on her phone.
    — Eric Andersson, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Lewis admitted in one message to having child pornography as his screen saver and attempting to entice a neighbor's child over to his house, according to the affidavit.
    — Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Lewis admitted in one message to having child pornography as his screen saver and attempting to entice a neighbor's child over to his house, according to the affidavit.
    — Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Swinging door-knocker earrings replaced classic pearl studs; powder blue and butter yellow cashmere twinsets were paired with fanny packs and flamboyant screen saver–print pants.
    — Alexandra Gurvitch, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2017
  • And yet, her favorite creature on this earth, the one featured exclusively on her iPhone screen saver, is a Maine Coon named Aggie.
    — Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Using simple taps and intuitive gestures, the look of the watch can be further customized with different dials and optional colorful screen savers.
    — Stephen Watson, Town & Country, 10 Nov. 2015
  • After a few minutes of inactivity, the Portal Go goes into an ambient mode, which shows a screen saver, the time, battery status, and weather.
    — Christian De Looper, BGR, 27 Dec. 2021

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