pager

Example Sentences

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"When the fire siren or pager went off in the middle of the night - everybody in the house was waking up, whether you were in the fire brigade or not at the time," said Raymond.

From BBC

He kept a pager clipped to his belt.

From The Wall Street Journal

Whether it was a serious crash, chimney fire or a cow trapped in a pond, when their pager went off, they were first on the scene.

From BBC

"The pager started beeping non-stop and, on the screen, it said 'alert'," Adam, who did not want to use his real name for safety reasons, said.

From BBC

This decision is one of the best things about “Holland,” which brims with recently retro production design in Windows desktop computers, early cell phones and pagers, tapes rented from video stores and high-rise dad jeans.

From Salon