How to Use wire service in a Sentence

wire service

noun
  • The story was reported by several wire services.
  • Some have even went so far as to find tiny masks for their pets, the wire service said.
    — Allen Kim, CNN, 15 Mar. 2020
  • Herald wire services were used in this report.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Herald wire services were used in this report.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Herald wire services were used in this report.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Do not go through a wire service, or a call center masquerading as a store.
    — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The story was soon picked up by wire services and was published around the country.
    — Kelly Kazek, AL.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Now, said the wire service, a second female at the zoo is pregnant.
    — Fox News, 28 July 2018
  • These wire services drive most of our visual news consumption.
    — Kainaz Amaria, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
  • Some fifty thousand words from the major wire services followed.
    — Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Zenger News, a digital wire service, was the first to report the news.
    — Jazmin Goodwin, CNN, 24 Mar. 2021
  • One of the cars allegedly failed to stop at a blinking light, according to the wire service.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 1 May 2018
  • Photos taken by wire services on the same day show a massive ash pillar looming over the region.
    — Jason Aldag, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Long told the wire service that the cuts were made in rural areas or with underused halfway houses.
    — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • With the streak ended, the paper could save money by relying on a wire service to report on road games.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2022
  • As a result, all of the wire service’s staffers, including Zimbrakos, were laid off.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2022
  • Or that the mainstream media is deeply flawed, but that wire services shouldn’t be shut out of the White House press pool?
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Passing the buck to a wire service or citing Pett’s prior awards are not excuses.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Reuters wire service contributed to the reporting of this story.
    — Natasha Lovato, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024
  • Bloomberg then grew the business to include a financial news arm, which has morphed into a major news wire service.
    — Kathleen Ronayne, The Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Larry has covered baseball and other sports for every sports wire service along with other outlets over the past two decades.
    — Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Of course, as a wire service, many hundreds of outlets around the world rely on their coverage to share with their audiences.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Herald wire services contributed to this report.
    — Isabelle Friedman, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Materials from Herald wire services were used in this report.
    — Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Associated Press wire services were used in this report.
    — Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The story was distributed on the Post’s wire service, which meant that it was published in newspapers around the country.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026
  • That’s just 62 out of all the broadcast, newspaper, wire service, and digital reporters.
    — Nikki Usher, Slate Magazine, 12 July 2017
  • Word spread through newspaper food sections and wire services, then Woman’s Day magazine bought the rights to the book.
    — Bonnie S. Benwick, Washington Post, 7 June 2019
  • The story was picked up by a few wire services, generated a hot take on some call-in shows, but had the shelf life of loaf of Wonder Bread.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 8 July 2019
  • The headlines framed it as a media business story, a legacy wire service finding new revenue in the AI era.
    — Parry Headrick, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026

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