How to Use smartphone in a Sentence

smartphone

noun
  • This is how the smartphone era ends.
    — Reuven Perlman, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Your smartphone is more than enough to do so.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Your smartphone is more than enough, too!
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Your smartphone is more than enough, too!
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The good news is your smartphone will do the trick.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Your smartphone is more than enough to do the trick!
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Your smartphone is more than enough to do the trick!
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Your smartphone is more than enough, too!
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Your smartphone is more than enough, too!
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The same could be said of some low-end smartphones too.
    — New Atlas, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Watch this video to see the rice-free way to dry out a soaked smartphone.
    — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
  • This alarm alerts you both by the pool, as well as in home and on your smartphone.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 May 2023
  • There were no weather alerts on your smartphone.
    — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
  • But his smartphone was keeping track of him.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026
  • That doesn’t mean the smartphone will go away anytime soon.
    — Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Many smartphones have a night mode setting.
    — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Teenage girls sit on a bench in a city courtyard and use their smartphones.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 July 2025
  • Jobs did not invent the smartphone.
    — Dileep Rao, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Was a Virginia teen lured to her death through a smartphone app?
    — Emily Wichick and Stephanie Slifer, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Black is a smartphone mainstay.
    — PC Magazine, 11 Sep. 2025
  • There are many reasons why a consumer might buy a new smartphone.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
  • New smartphones pack great features.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
  • That smartphone superglued to your hand helped train you for this.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 22 May 2022
  • Go through all the photos on your smartphone and add the best ones to an album.
    — Harry Guinness, Wired, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Why are parents giving kids smartphones in the first place?
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Millions of smartphone users face the same choice every year.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Many teens are swapping their smartphones for an old-school camera.
    — Liz Regalia, Parents, 20 Oct. 2025
  • You’ll be prompted to use your smartphone’s camera to scan your space.
    — Laura Fenton, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The same fraction of parents think their kids spend too much time on smartphones.
    — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
  • As hearing aids move to over-the-counter sales, those tests will shift to the web and smartphone apps.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2022

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