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Example sentences for "wireless"

Lexicographically close words:
wiping; wir; wird; wire; wired; wirelessed; wires; wireworm; wiring; wirk
  1. The little band of exiles were at second break fast when the wireless man came in late to announce that a Red D.

  2. Three days before, in advance of her coming, she had sent a wireless to Wilhelmstad, asking the captain of the port to reserve a berth for her.

  3. Each night the consuls, the foreign residents, the wireless operator, the manager of the rusty railroad met for dinner.

  4. Kennedy tore the wireless receiver from his ear.

  5. Quick, before this other wireless cuts in on us again.

  6. But with the audion you can see that some wireless is, and a fairly near and powerful source it is, too.

  7. Of course it flickered from the wireless we were using, but it kept on.

  8. The one thing, you may not know, that has kept us back while wireless telegraphy has gone ahead so fast is that in wireless we have been able to discard coherers and relays and use detectors and microphones in their places.

  9. Every time the Z99 was out they worked up here with their improvised wireless until they found the wave-length Shirley was using.

  10. Captain," he cried, "can you send a wireless message?

  11. Craig had already seized the other apparatus connected with the art-gallery and had the wireless receiver over his head.

  12. Those from the art-gallery terminated in something very much like the apparatus which a wireless operator wears over his head.

  13. The wireless impulses are carried down to her from an inconspicuous float which trails along the surface and carries a short aerial with a wire running down, like a mast, forming practically invisible antennae.

  14. This thing over my head is like a wireless telephone receiver, capable of detecting a current of even a quarter of a microampere.

  15. A book to delight the hearts of ten thousand--perhaps fifty thousand-American boys who are interested in wireless telegraphy and that sort of thing.

  16. At this stage the wireless communications between the King's African Rifles, the O.

  17. If your lordship will produce de Courtois's letters, cablegrams, and wireless messages to yourself and your confederate, Count Ladislas Vassilan, he will begin to appreciate the true bearing of a rather intricate inquiry.

  18. They undoubtedly received letters and wireless messages which seem to implicate others, far removed from them in social position, in the plot, or undertaking, that her ladyship's marriage should not take place.

  19. He is such a real good fellow, and so sublimely unconscious of his own merits, that I wanted to surprise him by starting a modest boom in the press, so I sent a wireless message about him to a journalistic friend in New York.

  20. I see now that they telegraphed for a tug, and it is best to assume that they have been kept informed by wireless of nearly every move in the game.

  21. Steam heat will be conveyed from the basement to radiators on every floor, and each room is being provided with a vacuum-cleaning apparatus, a wireless telephonic outfit and an American bar.

  22. We knew that its course was directed from above; it was swung with terrible certainty by a wireless control that reached it from a ship overhead.

  23. There was no attempt on the enemy's part to conceal his position; his wireless was crackling through the air with messages that our intelligence department easily decoded.

  24. Wireless had brought the report of their flight high over Germany; it was bringing now the story of disaster from the northern front.

  25. Then you got a wireless that this Denby had sailed with Mrs. Michael Harrington and Mr. Montague Vaughan, which threw suspicion on the lady as a possible smuggler?

  26. One of the stewards on the Mauretania is our agent and he sent us a copy of her wireless to old man Harrington.

  27. Although it was probable his wife, Monty and the guest of whose coming a wireless message had apprised him, would not be home for another hour, he was always anxious at such a moment.

  28. High, but not too high above cloud-level, a big white Albatross circled serenely, its long, untidy wireless aerial dangling.

  29. His anger was increased when the intercepted wireless came to hand in the evening: "Captain Müller shot down his twenty-seventh aeroplane.

  30. Back he streaked to the British lines, his wireless working frantically.

  31. Thus the Greeks were reduced to absolute helplessness; and their isolation was completed on 9 September, when British sailors landed and destroyed the wireless station.

  32. I think though, the wireless one has a crackle the hospital brand lacks.

  33. I have burned out my wireless trying to get a word about him.

  34. I found a lot of papers and wireless messages, and I wouldn't let her sneak off with Royal.

  35. There is a wireless station somewhere around here," said Cleo.

  36. The seven ships which caught the message started at once to her help but were all stopped on the way (except the Birma) by the Carpathia's wireless announcing the fate of the Titanic and the people aboard her.

  37. There is no question that it should be installed, along with wireless apparatus, on every ship of over 1000 tons gross tonnage.

  38. The Baltic received a wireless message stating the Republic's condition and the information that she was in touch with Nantucket through a submarine bell which she could hear ringing.

  39. In those ships fitted with receiving apparatus, at least one officer is obliged to understand the working of the apparatus: a very wise precaution, and, as suggested above, one that should be taken with respect to wireless apparatus also.

  40. The crew had apparently heard of the wireless communications before they left the Titanic, but I never heard them say that we were in touch with any boat but the Olympic: it was always the Olympic that was coming to our rescue.

  41. Now on these two occasions when wireless telegraphy was found to be unreliable, the usefulness of the submarine bell at once becomes apparent.

  42. The second vessel was a small steamer some few miles ahead on the port side, without any wireless apparatus, her name and destination still unknown; and yet the evidence for her presence that night seems too strong to be disregarded.

  43. Submarine signalling has never received that public notice which wireless telegraphy has, for the reason that it does not appeal so readily to the popular mind.

  44. The wireless operators were now in touch with several ships, and calling to them to come quickly for the water was pouring in and the Titanic beginning to go down by the head.

  45. He knew that Southminster Castle had been put into wireless touch with the great Marconi office in Parliament Square, and that a failure to be answered meant that something unexpected had happened.

  46. I had one set in case the wireless failed.

  47. He knew all now; wireless messages had streamed in hour after hour during the flight across the Atlantic.

  48. The wireless is out of communication, sir.

  49. Wireless stations have been set up in Asia Minor and Palestine, and these are under the command of Major Schlee.

  50. I resigned by wireless before we left the dock at Eureka.

  51. Besides, you tried to double-cross me with that wireless message.

  52. Give me your message to Mr. Ricks and when I get back aboard the Tillicum I'll wireless it to him for you, and it won't cost the ship a cent extra.

  53. That will give him time to wireless ahead and have one waiting for him when the vessel touches in to discharge passengers from the south.

  54. He sent for his wireless operator and ordered him to send this message: Blue Star Navigation Company, San Francisco, Cal.

  55. Wireless the master of the Florence to provide himself with a new second mate.

  56. Then send him a wireless and tell him he's fired.

  57. You must have known there was always the risk of your wireless report beating it up a little too tall.

  58. No more than you can see the wireless impulses that flow from the wires of an aerial station.

  59. If he should succeed in discovering from the plate how to make the power that is discharged in wireless currents, it will take him a long time, and we can be away before then.

  60. There is an intense wireless communication--I cannot know what it is about.

  61. I remember little about wireless telegraphy; only few explanations given to me by Capt.

  62. I never knew that a wireless apparatus for a range of more than one hundred miles could be such a small thing.

  63. To make wireless telephony a success it was necessary to find some way of making perfectly uniform carrier-waves, and then of loading on them waves of speech.

  64. This made it impossible to produce the steady oscillations that are required in wireless telephony.

  65. The oscillations used in wireless telegraphy these days are very rapid, usually entirely too rapid, to affect an ordinary telephone receiver, and if they did they would produce a note of such high pitch that it could not be heard.

  66. During the war seaplanes carried wireless telephone apparatus with which they could call to destroyers and submarine-chasers when they spotted a submarine.

  67. In wireless telegraphy the two stakes are represented by antennae or aerials and the cork floats are electric charges which are sent oscillating up and down the antennae.

  68. The observer had to carry a camera, to take photographs of what lay below, and he was usually equipped with a wireless outfit, with which he could send important information back to his own base.

  69. If only we had wireless we might signal our plight.

  70. Her searchlight and wireless were missing.

  71. Divorce Absolutely Eliminated By Our Infallible Wireless Method Success Certain It is now known the world over that Professor William Augustus Destyn has discovered that the earth we live on is enveloped in Psychical Currents.

  72. And we were dying to see a wireless telephone work.

  73. To the subconscious personality of the only woman for whom he was created, the only woman on earth whose psychic personality is properly attuned to intercept that wireless greeting and respond to it.

  74. What was there to prevent your waves from being hitched to a wireless current and, finally, signaling the subconscious personality of--of some pretty actress, for example?

  75. If you want to send a wireless message you hitch on to a current, don't you?

  76. In each of the thousand Louis XVI operating rooms a Destyn-Carr wireless instrument was to stand upon a rococo table.

  77. Yes, it's one kind of a wireless instrument.

  78. The Destyn-Carr Wireless Apparatus does it all for you.

  79. In other words, when psychic waves from any individual are collected or telegraphed along these wireless psychical currents, only that one affinity attuned to receive them can properly respond.

  80. Yet, like wireless currents, their flow eternally encircles the earth.

  81. Just because I happen to be president of the Amalgamated Wireless Trust Company?

  82. In the camp at Njangao the receipt of part of a German wireless message directed to me, expressing his Majesty’s acknowledgments on the occasion of the third anniversary of the outbreak of war, delighted us all.

  83. The enemy plundered it, destroyed the wireless tower, and left again on the 24th towards Kissumu.

  84. Apparently the enemy had deciphered our wireless messages and taken steps accordingly.

  85. As regards the Europeans, we only heard in September, 1916, by wireless that the decorations recommended by Headquarters had been approved.

  86. According to wireless messages which we took in, several Belgian whale-boats were got ready on Lake Tanganyika during June, and work was being carried on on a new Belgian steamer, the Baron Dhanis.

  87. In contrast to this a wireless message from the Admiralty Staff mentioned England also among our probable enemies.

  88. According to reports which soon reached us, it emanated from two English light cruisers, Astræa and Pegasus, who were aiming at the wireless tower.

  89. We were also deficient of light wireless apparatus, by means of which later on the English successfully controlled the movements of their columns in the bush.

  90. All our toil was forgotten, and our spirits rose to the highest pitch on receiving at this very moment, after a rather long interval, another wireless message from home.

  91. If we could get into wireless telephonic communication with the Martians we might learn from their own lips the secret of their more than ``Roman recovery.

  92. Never use your wireless or your gun," he said, "and you'll come to no harm from a German raider.

  93. Also that in case of distress we could call for no help, as our wireless would only receive and not send messages.

  94. Evidently something was in the air; some wireless message had been picked up, as the seaplane was being brought up from the 'tween decks and assembled at great haste on the well deck.

  95. The Wolf usually sent us over a budget of wireless news when she had been away from us any length of time.

  96. Coaling the Wolf from the Igotz Mendi at once began, and a wireless installation was immediately rigged up by the Germans on the Spanish ship.

  97. But on the evening of the 19th the Captain informed us that he had received a wireless message announcing the safe arrival of the Wolf at a German port.

  98. We know exactly where all your cruisers are, we pick up all their wireless messages, and we shall never see or go anywhere near one of them.

  99. German raiders had previously coaled and hidden at Trinidad; but Brazil was now in the war, so that hole was stopped, and the Wolf had intercepted a wireless from the Commander of a Brazilian cruiser to the garrison on Trinidad.

  100. The wireless aerials were brought down by the storm, and any seas that did come on board smashed whatever deck hamper had been left about.

  101. The Lieutenant, who we afterwards learnt was in charge of the prisoners, told us that the Wolf had signalled us to stop, and not to use our wireless or our gun, for the Hitachi mounted a gun on her poop for the submarine zone.

  102. This damage had been done by a single shot aimed at the wireless room near the bridge.

  103. The German wireless station at Dar-es-Salaam, the only good harbour in German East Africa, was destroyed (Aug.

  104. Regulations were cited to show that not only was the taking of abnormal stores by belligerent merchantmen prohibited but that vessels carrying wireless had to dismantle the installation.

  105. In the same session a Wireless Telegraphy Act was passed, requiring steamers engaged in the seal fishing to be fitted with wireless telegraphs.

  106. It was from Simpsonshafen that German New Guinea and other territory in the vicinity was governed, and the first aim of the Australians was to locate and destroy a wireless station known to be at work upon the island.

  107. The Sydney was part of the convoy of the transports, and early one morning there came a wireless call from Cocos Island that a foreign warship was approaching.

  108. The Ecuadorean Government issued an absolute denial of this and of the charge that the wireless installations had been allowed to be used by Germany.

  109. Sydney of the Australian Navy, on November 9, while attempting to destroy the wireless station at the Cocos or Keeling Islands, and that the German cruiser Koenigsberg had been discovered on October 30 (see that date).

  110. We quickly found the telegraph building and the wireless station, took possession of both of them, and so prevented any attempt to send signals.

  111. Every nook and corner were searched for reserve apparatus and other like matter, and everything that bore any semblance of usefulness in a wireless station was soon destroyed.

  112. We now set to work to tear down the wireless tower.

  113. I have orders to destroy the wireless and telegraph station, and I advise you to make no resistance.

  114. At the same time I could count with certainty upon the arrival of an English war vessel ere long in Keeling harbor, to learn what had befallen the cable and wireless station.

  115. The French iron-clad would surely hear of it, and could at once participate in the search for our ship, while her wireless apparatus could flash information of us to all the English and French war vessels in the vicinity.

  116. Among their towering tops we could discern the roofs of the European houses and the high tower of the wireless station.


  117. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wireless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    wireless message; wireless operator; wireless outfit; wireless telegraph; wireless telegraphy