How to Use mike in a Sentence

mike

noun
Definition of mikenext
  • The announcer was wearing a mike.
  • An open mike will present the first five poets to sign up.
    — Carole Goldberg, courant.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Time Kylie Jenner has dropped the mike on the Super Bowl.
    — Lorena Blas, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2018
  • There’s cameras and a man holding a boom mike who’s ready to go home.
    — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 26 July 2017
  • Kwyn wants her open mike to be a reflection of the city's beauty.
    — Matt Harvey, Chicago Reader, 25 June 2018
  • Her words were amplified by Ginsburg’s body mike, and the crowd laughed.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The animal went for his throat, and while Horn tried to beat him off with his mike, the tiger held on to his neck and dragged him off stage.
    — Washington Post, 9 May 2020
  • And one of the rappers had part of his rap cut off/quieted when his mike shifted.
    — Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 20 May 2018
  • And then a dozen students trooped up to a bank of shortwave radios and read their questions into the mike.
    — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Williamson and a buddy were hosting an open-mike jam session.
    — Nathaniel Wilder, Smithsonian, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The venue will host a second open mike from 6 p.m. to midnight Saturday.
    — Nashelly Chavez, sacbee, 11 Apr. 2018
  • There’s the mike linebacker, which is Dorian Etheridge’s position, and the free and strong safeties.
    — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Open mikes were like that because they would be used to acoustic sets and everything.
    — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Alarmed, co-owner Jim Cooper grabbed a mike and begged for mercy, to little avail.
    — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • McCarthy arrived with $45 in cash, and Atwood signed her up for an open mike night in a comedy club.
    — David A. Keeps, Good Housekeeping, 6 Nov. 2012
  • When the panel's host Patton Oswalt asked for fan questions, the first person to walk up to the mike was none other than Purser.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 23 July 2017
  • Inexplicably, Hochuli gets on his mike for what should have been a confirmation of the call on the field.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Toward the end of the ride, fellow docents sang her a farewell song before Pfaff took the mike back for her detailed instructions about lost and found.
    — Beth Spotswood, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Kwyn approached Colón with the idea to host her event after attending previous open mikes held at the Breathing Room.
    — Matt Harvey, Chicago Reader, 25 June 2018
  • Coyle knit three prototypes, and within a few days the group had named it the Pussyhat, a reference to Trump’s hot-mike moment with Billy Bush.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Church had multiple mike stands placed at various sides (and used them often).
    — George Paul, Orange County Register, 1 Apr. 2017
  • Timmons said, explaining the difference between being a mike linebacker and playing on the weak side or the strong side.
    — Omar Kelly, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 July 2017
  • Again and again, one of the hapless souls onstage will step up to the mike and lead a Dylan classic in a voice that suggests not thought, but deepest feeling made audible.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Now, 10 years after forging an indelible mark as a songwriter, Renea is stepping up to the mike as a singer, too.
    — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Photo: mike blake/Reuters Campbell tried to break into the fresh-food sector by acquiring Bolthouse Farms in 2012.
    — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 29 May 2018
  • There was the hot mike that picked up Matt Hasselbeck's ill-fated boast during the overtime coin toss that the Seahawks would win, preceding his pick-six in the 2003 playoffs.
    — oregonlive, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Morgan also plays at many local venues, open-mike nights and festivals.
    — Melissa Whatley, baltimoresun.com, 9 July 2019
  • And this week, Emma Silvers took us to S.F.’s most extraordinary open-mike night.
    — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2018
  • In the early 70s he got turned on to autoharps while participating in cross-genre open-mike series.
    — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 21 June 2018
  • Swedien meticulously set up the microphones, telling how Streisand would bring her own mike to the recording studio.
    — Hannah Sayle, Star Tribune, 18 Nov. 2020

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