How to Use microphone in a Sentence

microphone

noun
Definition of microphonenext
  • At the very end of the episode, Meghan and Harry had Archie take a turn on the microphone.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Press the microphone's off/on button at the top of the device.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The iconography is all there: the smile, the waves of hair, the smile, the microphone and even the butterfly ring.
    — Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Open the conversation and tap the microphone on the right side of the text field.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 3 Jan. 2023
  • For Flatland, the loudest cheers of the night came when Butts emerged from the wings with a microphone in hand.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2024
  • At one point in the video, Lopez can be seen singing into a microphone.
    — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 24 July 2024
  • Next, press the microphone icon on the window that appears.
    — Kim Komando, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Not one to leave The Voice coach hanging, Carol picked up her own microphone and sang the rest of the verse with her.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The top has buttons to kill the camera and microphone and to adjust the volume.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Fain grabbed a microphone and jumped onto the bed of a Ram pickup.
    — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Some of the other folks on this tour were reserved in their approach to the microphone.
    — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Leaders cut the sound on the video feed and Zephyr remained on the floor holding her microphone.
    — CBS News, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Schiff shucked the microphone and walked off with an impish smile.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Our testers made a phone call to test the microphone and asked the person on the other end of the call how clear their voice sounded.
    — Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 2 Feb. 2023
  • And Banks yelling into a microphone, giving us the blow-by-blow of the attacks.
    — Derek Lawrence, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Friends took to the microphone to remember Smith as a man who was always there for them.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
  • During the next few days, Danny, Irene, and Joe read large stacks of books into the microphone.
    — David Owen, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2023
  • In her full uniform and pads, Collins began when, after the first few words, the microphone cut off.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Nonetheless, training camp has proved to not be the smoothest sailing for Rivera in front of the microphone.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • And now Schumer is giving the monied CEOs his chamber’s microphones.
    — Matt Laslo, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
  • In content shared by TMZ, the woman is shown to have a gash in her forehead where the microphone made contact.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2023
  • On your Echo device, find the button that looks like a microphone or a circle with a line through it.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The two women have some back and forth about the First Amendment before the woman in the black skirt tries, again, to wrestle the microphone away.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Rescue ships pinged the ocean with sonar in the hopes of detecting the shape of the vehicle, and listened for it with microphones.
    — WIRED, 22 June 2023
  • Lined up one after the other, in front of a single microphone, the crowd cheered each speaker on.
    — Wesley Parnell, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Daring to be different on the design front, the 3-in-1 looks like a microphone, the Gamefrost is a stick-on fan, and the Dash Pro is a car dock.
    — Simon Hill, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Each asks shrewd questions, which the person at the microphone dodges with ease and fires back with a dagger that gets the press laughing.
    — John Boyanoski, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • After the photo, the president, 80, turned his back to the podium to lay the jersey down and Kelce scooted over to the microphone.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 6 June 2023
  • Lavalier microphone setups like you’ve seen on late-night TV.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Kassi Ashton believes that when she was born and her baby feet were pinched to see if her vocal cords worked, a microphone was also held to her mouth and a spotlight shined in her face.
    — Ilana Kaplan, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2024

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