microphone
Example Sentences
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Episodes generally begin the same way, with the sisters sitting behind a table with an old-fashioned radio-days microphone nicknamed “Mike-elangelo” between them.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
The winners in the live-action short film category had the microphone turned back on after initially being played off the stage.
From Salon • Mar. 16, 2026
Eric Musselman sat behind a microphone at the bitter end of a bitter regular season for USC, armed only with the same explanations for how a once-hopeful season could come so undone.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2026
Shortly after telling a festival crowd in New York she said she'd had a "tricky couple of days", she dropped her microphone, collapsed backwards and had to be helped off stage.
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026
Principal Trask’s voice booms like she has a microphone.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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