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Example sentences for "radio"

Lexicographically close words:
radices; radicle; radicles; radii; radiis; radioactive; radioactivity; radiobroadcast; radiocommunication; radioed
  1. A small radio also adds to the general contentment.

  2. Incidentally, radio antennae should be properly grounded and have an approved lightning arrester.

  3. The following day, with the barrio teniente, we looked for places to hide the radio if it became necessary.

  4. Don Bell's voice blared forth from Radio KZRH in Manila: "Those dirty little bastards have struck Pearl Harbor!

  5. That night our radio told us that the Japs had made landings at Aparri, on the north coast of Luzon, and had actually landed two thousand soldiers at Vigan on the northwest coast.

  6. The evening radio reported a heavy artillery duel; also that MacArthur had received an ultimatum from Gen.

  7. We were only fifteen miles from the radio shack, where Nakar was persisting in his efforts to contact Gen.

  8. Corregidor Falls: With the silencing of the big guns and the radio on Corregidor on May 6th, we found ourselves unable to contact any ally.

  9. In the evening, when they suspected' the Japanese were listening to their radios, they would run the voltage up high and blowout the Jap radio sets.

  10. I was quite sure that all commercial communications with the States had been cut off, but I called the radio station to send a message to my wife, Judy, a teacher at Holton Arms School in Washington, D.

  11. That night the radio announced that the "Japanese have marched from Aparri (on the north coast of Luzon) to Tuguegarao and have activated the airfield.

  12. Communications: A small nipa shack housed our two-way radio set up by Captain Arnold.

  13. He had brought a two-way radio from the northwest corner of Luzon, where he was with the Air Warning Service.

  14. Guillermo was fearful lest the Japanese locate the regimental radio by triangulation of transmission waves.

  15. The offer was accepted, and now the naval-radio school at Harvard is one of the largest educational institutions in the country.

  16. The navy supplies the operators for the rapidly increasing number of war vessels, and has undertaken to supply radio operators for all merchant vessels in transatlantic service.

  17. The radio man goes to his room and the officer descends to the detector.

  18. At Harvard and Mare Island the radio students are put through four months' courses, which embraces not only radio-telegraphy and allied subjects, but military training.

  19. We had no kite nor radio to call for assistance, so we released our two carrier-pigeons.

  20. This looked like business, and Newport became certain of this when shortly after noon came a radio containing advices as to the sinking of the steamship West Point off Nantucket.

  21. He fumbled the headphone of the radio set into place.

  22. Reports from Rio on a short-wave band of radio frequencies were passing from Ribiera to some other place apparently inland.

  23. The radio receiver was one of those extraordinarily light and portable ones that are made for aircraft.

  24. Now well turn on the radio and see what news we get.

  25. Bell remembered, suddenly, and switched on the radio as an experiment.

  26. Exactly the same process, of course, is used for radio directional signals, one of which still buzzed monotonously in Bell's ears until he impatiently turned it off.

  27. And I've found some maps and there's a radio receiving outfit if--" Paula managed to smile.

  28. Was anything safe from this devilish mystery that could pluck each cowering human from the lowest depths of this steel freighter, that could drag her down in the water till the radio man sent his cry: "We are sinking!

  29. Beam wireless, of course, is nothing more or less than a concentration of a radio signal in a nearly straight line, instead of allowing it to spread about equally on all sides of the transmitting station.

  30. No radio man was waiting him there, nor even a body to show the loser of an unequal battle.

  31. Bell, then, was in a direct line from Rio to the source of a radio direction signal.

  32. Ribiera had talked to a headquarters somewhere, by beam radio from Rio.

  33. There's a radio receiving set nearby, which listened to those short-wave reports.

  34. Despite the effort of the commissioners, the present method develops a public insistence that the commissioners are specially charged with supervision of radio affairs in the zone from which each is appointed.

  35. The address was broadcast live on nationwide radio and television.

  36. We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching radio democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria, and passing the African Trade and Development Act.

  37. When I was growing up, we failed to see how a new thing called radio would transform our marketplace.

  38. Revision is needed of the laws regulating radio interference.

  39. The administration of the decisions of the board and the other features of regulation and promotion of radio in the public interest, together with scientific research, should remain in the Department of Commerce.

  40. Federal deposits in minority-owned banks have more than doubled and minority ownership of radio and television stations has nearly doubled.

  41. Last year he led an infantry unit that stopped a mob of extremists from taking over a radio station that is a voice of democracy and tolerance in Bosnia.

  42. Provision has been made for lighting 4,000 miles more during the current fiscal year and equipping an equal mileage with radio facilities.

  43. The first thing, then, was to get the radio set from McCracken.

  44. As for the occasion when the radio had begun to emit its mysterious code signals, the explanation for that was simple enough, too.

  45. Carvalho had turned off the radio beam at the ship.

  46. He put McCracken and the radio in the second squad under Carvalho, and himself took charge of the first.

  47. I certainly gave you some off-beam instructions before that radio of mine went on the blink.

  48. We left the radio beam on to guide you--" "What's that?

  49. But first let him send one interplanetary radio message to his friends.

  50. There's supposed to be no one but Kalinoff on Mercury, and his radio set doesn't work.

  51. Incidentally, there was a radio going, with a code message.

  52. That may have been true, but it was a pretty poor system as it went: Mostly, the people who got radio licenses were cops, spooks, and media barons.

  53. And there, approaching him, moving through the alleys toward his garage, a blob of interference, a slow, bobbing something that was scattering radio waves as it made its way toward him.

  54. She prodded at the radio and found a college station, staticky and amateurish, and nodded her head along with the mash-up mixes and concert bootlegs the DJ was spinning.

  55. There are people all over the world doing this, and whenever the policy wonks go to the radio cops to ask for more radio spectrum to do this stuff with, they parade people like us in front of them.

  56. That's because there were no rules for radio back then, so anyone could light up any transmitter and send out any signal at any frequency.

  57. Now, the original radio rules were supposed to protect free expression because if everyone was allowed to speak at once, no one would be heard.

  58. We're like the Pinocchio's nose on the face of the radio cops: They say that only their big business buddies can be trusted with the people's airwaves, and we show them up for giant liars.

  59. Radio stations were established at Eugene, Portland and Medford.

  60. Earl had started sending with the radio as soon as Bill had regained control of the plane.

  61. He talked into the radio installed in the plane, and the monologue was repeated through the loud-speakers on the ground.

  62. We received a radio message from Breene telling us that you were going to land, but why pick out the ocean?

  63. These planes had scarcely landed before the radio plane went up, and Lieutenant Liggett kept the crowd interested by telling stories, singing and giving information as to what he could see.

  64. In a few minutes they were flying around over the reservation while they checked their radio with the ground station at the airdrome.

  65. Liggett, the Radio Officer, was checking radio sets on the planes and supervising the erection of a radio hut some distance away from the landing field proper.

  66. Furthermore, I have had a radio of my own ever since they came into common use.

  67. Everyone realized that radio communication would have to be used continuously between the planes and any bases which might be established.

  68. The radio sets were tested to insure their perfect working condition.

  69. As soon as they appeared, Bill headed his plane out over the Coast Artillery radio station.

  70. The radio trucks were taken along, and with them all ground radio sets.

  71. I will have Liggett take the radio demonstration.

  72. Bill knew that the radio operator would immediately send word to the foresters waiting at Elam and Adler that the plane was on its way.

  73. They also took with them a radio pack-set, which is another wireless apparatus that can be carried about with little difficulty.

  74. The whole rear end of the ship was gone, and with it had gone the First Officer, the Radio Officer, and the Engineering Officer.

  75. That current is fed into the radio unit, and the signal is sent to Pluto.

  76. The big radio telescopes on Luna and on the Jovian satellites can pick them up if we beam them sunward, and the Plutonian station can pick us up if we beam in that direction.

  77. They could also pick up the radio lighthouses on Eros, Ceres, Luna, and Mimas.

  78. Even if you had let me radio in the coordinates I had they would have been wrong, wouldn't they?

  79. Only that you radio incorrect coordinates back to your base.

  80. A certain young man, standing in front of a radio store in Ashby, waited to hear no more.

  81. I hope you will pardon me, radio football fans, for this brief intrusion," spoke Coach Brock.

  82. The modulation of radio frequency oscillations by a buzzer which breaks up the sustained oscillations of a transmitter into audio frequency impulses.

  83. Owned by the Radio Corporation of America at Rocky Point near Port Jefferson, L.

  84. The operation of the Amplitron, [Footnote: Made by the Radio Service Co.

  85. Footnote: The U C-1014 Faradon condenser made by the Radio Corporation of America will serve the purpose.

  86. The modulation of radio frequency oscillations by a chopper which breaks up the sustained oscillations of a transmitter into audio frequency impulses.

  87. A radio frequency wave modulated by an audio frequency wave which results in setting of three radio frequency waves.

  88. My radio is shot and I'm here to stay until that destroyer out beyond turns in.

  89. The boys had a small radio and always tuned in the Algiers radio station for news of the Allied attack upon Sicily.

  90. Have Allison get on the radio and tell him to put it on the table, and have him order me two apple pies.

  91. He leaned toward O'Malley, "Have Allison get the radio set working.

  92. There isn't any radio and there isn't a gun aboard this ship, except our two pistols.

  93. I have just talked by radio to headquarters.

  94. We got the radio going and asked permission.

  95. Picking up the radio signals from the Malta field, they slid in, spotted the Yank landing strip, and set down.

  96. Radio from New York says that a bomb missed LA and hit the ocean.

  97. Radio Central told him and went on: "Funny thing was, he didn't try to hide it or anything.

  98. Karnes and Lansberg were right behind him in a radio car.

  99. Zenith Radio Corporation is under no obligation to extend this warranty to any receiver for which a Zenith warranty registration card has not been completed and mailed to the Corporation within fifteen (15) days after date of delivery.

  100. With the finely adjusted nautical instruments at their command, scientific books, wireless communication, and the correct time sent out each day by radio they have no excuse for failing to make and maintain accurate observations.

  101. His radio set, for example--he had been pretty sure it was coming, and on May twentieth there it was!

  102. Yeah--when we get the bedroom set paid for we're going to exchange the radio for a Cadillac.

  103. And to the north, they were swarming into the mountains; building great fires there, too, and attacking the Terran radar and radio beacons.

  104. Edith started to explain about the orbital beacon-stations off-planet and the radio beams, and then stopped.

  105. Our telephone line's cut, and the radio is smashed.

  106. Telephone and radio communication seems to be broken, and, although there is continuous firing going on inside the building, the city police, who have a cordon completely around it, say that the situation in the store is well in hand.

  107. Anything being done about gold-berging up a radio sending-set?

  108. And the metallic click of his tiny radio bringing the news to the human flotsam out on the drift ice!

  109. Later that day the tapping in the radio box began again.

  110. A radio "ham" in Hillton, Alabama, had picked it out of the air and had wirelessed it on to Bington.

  111. Radio, the long arm of mysterious sound that had rescued the Nardak from the ice barrens--radio now welcomed her home.

  112. On his head was a cap of straps that held a pair of radio ear phones in place.

  113. For when the great dirigible dropped these men for scouting in various parts of the Arctic waste, radio would be their only means of communication with the rest of the party.

  114. The staccato tap-tapping of radio telegraph seemed never to drop silent.

  115. Perhaps it was all a hallucination of young Renaud's fevered mind--that radio call from the north.

  116. Lee was subscribing to a magazine now, "The Radio World.

  117. The mysterious pencil line that had acted in the place of a wire connection, and so had saved his and Bartlot's lives, had proved to Lee Renaud that there were many hitherto undreamed-of agencies for radio improvement.

  118. In the midst of black hopelessness, Lee aimlessly tinkered at the radio outfit.

  119. The dirigible Nardak lost above northern America after a great storm which had rolled down thence--for days all radio communication cut off from the Nardak, and no more word from her.

  120. Despite the creeping touch of abnormal cold on metal and acid and tube, his radio had brought in the message!

  121. I know, this analogy between telepathy and radio is full of holes, but it's good enough for this.

  122. Immediately, Gofredo snatched the hand-phone of his belt radio and began speaking urgently into it.

  123. And still no command came over the radio to halt them.

  124. The radio gave its hum of life, and a voice came through.

  125. There must have been some fix made and a pretty careful calculation of where they could go next, for as they neared the outer moons of Jupiter the radio crackled into life again.


  126. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "radio" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advice; adviser; announcer; authority; beam; broadcast; cabinet; cable; channel; chassis; communicant; communications; console; device; electronics; enlightener; flash; grapevine; housing; informant; information; informer; instrument; intelligence; journalism; monitor; mouthpiece; newscast; newsletter; newspaper; press; publisher; radar; radiate; radio; receiver; reporter; send; shortwave; signal; source; spokesman; telecommunication; telegram; telegraph; telephonic; television; telex; teller; tidings; tipster; tout; transmit; wire; wireless; witness; word


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    radio receivers; radio relay; radiobroadcast coverage; radiotelephone communication; radiotelephone communications