How to Use beeper in a Sentence

beeper

noun
Definition of beepernext
  • Put an old cell phone or beeper to good use too and clip it on your waistband to complete the look.
    — Caylin Harris, Country Living, 13 July 2020
  • His study subjects carry a beeper with them for about a week.
    — Cassandra Willyard, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2015
  • The caller said the beeper on the backhoe was really loud.
    — cleveland, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Inez tells him she’s due to be moved to a new shelter but gives him her beeper number and vows to find him.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The person next to me is diabetic and wears a beeper that goes off all day long.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 5 June 2021
  • For Skunk's time machine clue, the Men in Black unveiled a beeper showing the numbers 607.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 20 Oct. 2021
  • When the beeper went off, the subjects jotted down what was going on in their minds just before.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Napoleon was at home sleeping on a Sunday morning when his beeper went off.
    — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Ask your co-worker if putting her beeper on vibrate would work for her, because the sound distracts you.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 5 June 2021
  • Some vehicles and locations had CB radios, and there were a good many hand-helds and beepers.
    — Susan Harfouche, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
  • A subject wears an earpiece and a beeper sounds at random intervals.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
  • The book is a dialogue built around eighteen moments in the mind of a beeper-wearing recent college graduate named Melanie.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Their initial plan was to launch a service that would make checking beeper messages easier.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 29 May 2024
  • Two beeper collars chimed to life, no GPS, just a compass hanging off his lanyard with a traditional flush counter.
    — Outdoor Life, 11 Nov. 2020
  • When cell phones took over, Levy abdicated beepers and went into neon signage.
    — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Karen Maskarinec's beeper goes off when a nurse or social worker at Providence believes a patient nearing death will be alone.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2018
  • At the meeting, as Ora’s allotted 1 minute concluded and the beeper sounded, no one stopped her from continuing to talk for nearly four.
    — Nanette Asimov, SFChronicle.com, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Long before most of us had smart phones all but glued to our bodies, Hurlburt designed a beeper that research subjects wore in their ears and sounded randomly throughout the day.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Looking for what sticks and what doesn’t, looking for the lightening in a bottle that helped a guy who went away when beepers were all the rage and spent more than half his life in prison get through the noise and negativity online.
    — Helen Ubiñas, Philly.com, 17 July 2017
  • Diaz wriggled into the jacket of his uniform and unfastened the Motorola beeper on his hip.
    — ProPublica, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Talk of ultrasonic beepers that would ward off sharks mid-assault is everywhere.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Epstein's secretary would contact her by email, beeper or her family's landline to set up a meeting, Araoz said.
    — NBC News, 10 July 2019
  • The beeper indicating when protons were flowing into their apparatus dated back five decades, said Brown, who helped find all the pieces.
    — Quanta Magazine, 24 Feb. 2021
  • In 2012, Sims — former weld-grinder, former beeper salesman, soon-to-be former homebrewer – opened Sasquatch Brewing, and the brewpub quickly caught on in the Hillsdale neighborhood.
    — oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2022
  • No one reported seeing a parachute before the aircraft crashed, bursting into flames, nor were beeper signals heard.
    — Kendall Trammell, CNN, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Yet there was no denying the radio-directional equipment, which located the satellite beeper directly in the center of town.
    — David Canfield, EW.com, 26 June 2019
  • Even doctors, the lone significant holdout for the technology, are giving up their beepers.
    — David Becker, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2006
  • The days of coordinating criminal activity by beeper and pay phone are long gone.
    — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2021
  • Sarah tries a new, more aggressive tack, one that involves a beeper and lists and a schedule and, for the audience’s benefit at least as much as Joe’s, an audiotape explaining his situation.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2022
  • There, cardboard boxes hold beepers, Motorola flip phones, Casio watches and American flags covered with the debris from ground zero.
    — Chelsia Rose Marcius Lanna Apisukh, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024

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