public-address system
noun
variants
or public address system
: an apparatus including a microphone and loudspeakers used for broadcasting (as to an audience in an auditorium)
called also PA, PA system
Examples of public-address system in a Sentence
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The company’s greatest hits spotlighted Tiger Woods’s marital meltdown and the JetBlue flight attendant who quit his job by shouting obscenities over a plane’s public-address system, grabbing a beer from the galley, and sliding down the plane’s emergency chute.
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IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2012
These needed to be kept at a distance from exploding pyrotechnics and angled away from the blare of the stadium’s public-address system.
—Jody Rosen, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
In train stations, and subway stations, a voice over the public-address system makes an announcement, routinely.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Jan. 2023
The Dutchman even apologized to the crowd on the track’s public-address system.
—Stephen Wade, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Oct. 2022
An announcer was testing the public-address system.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022
The explosion shook the building and knocked out the public-address system.
—Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2021
There were several announcements over the public-address system, and these were important.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Sep. 2021
These recordings are being aired over the public-address system at low levels, just enough to quell the echo of footsteps.
—David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2021
IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2012
These needed to be kept at a distance from exploding pyrotechnics and angled away from the blare of the stadium’s public-address system.
—Jody Rosen, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
In train stations, and subway stations, a voice over the public-address system makes an announcement, routinely.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Jan. 2023
The Dutchman even apologized to the crowd on the track’s public-address system.
—Stephen Wade, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Oct. 2022
An announcer was testing the public-address system.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022
The explosion shook the building and knocked out the public-address system.
—Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2021
There were several announcements over the public-address system, and these were important.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Sep. 2021
These recordings are being aired over the public-address system at low levels, just enough to quell the echo of footsteps.
—David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2021
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