How to Use SOS in a Sentence

SOS

noun
  • Why is my phone stuck on SOS mode?
    Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Why is my phone stuck on SOS mode?
    Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Why does your iPhone say 'SOS'?
    Jonathan Limehouse, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Is your skin sending out an SOS?
    Lily Wohlner, Allure, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Is your skin sending out an SOS?
    Lily Wohlner, Allure, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Is your skin sending out an SOS?
    Lily Wohlner, Allure, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Is your skin sending out an SOS?
    Lily Wohlner, Allure, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Is your skin sending out an SOS?
    Lily Wohlner, Allure, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Is your skin sending out an SOS?
    Lily Wohlner, Allure, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Emergency calls can still be made in SOS mode.
    Jonathan Limehouse, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Some users were unable to make phone calls, or their phones were stuck in SOS mode.
    Chevall Pryce, Baltimore Sun, 14 Jan. 2026
  • As for the meaning behind the SOS?
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Through the use of the SOS function on an iPhone, the trio was able to get help.
    David Chiu, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
  • If this organ does not work well, your body sends an SOS, which leads to high blood pressure.
    Discover Magazine, 30 June 2023
  • More than a year after its release, SOS is still busting records.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The movie will serve as the SOS singer’s acting debut in a feature film.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Wilting leaves are an orchid’s way of sending an SOS.
    Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Sasaki answered his own SOS, with some help from his defense.
    Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026
  • Within the shelter, the hikers sent out an SOS call.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Chance first learned about the crash when Tanya’s iPhone issued an SOS alert.
    Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Your brain knows that a pain signal is an SOS message from your body that something isn’t right.
    Yenisel Cruz-Almeida, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
  • This is not a story of a pilot having visions; the SOS sign was still there.
    Leyton Cassidy, Longreads, 7 May 2024
  • The track will likely appear on Lana, her deluxe version of SOS.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Bieber returned the favor last night, bringing out the SOS singer as his closing guest.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 19 Apr. 2026
  • When no one arrived, the passenger used the SOS feature.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Apr. 2026
  • When no one arrived, the passenger pressed an SOS button and was again told that help was on the way.
    Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
  • After no one showed up, the passenger pushed an SOS button and was told that staff were on their way.
    ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • During the launch, an Apple rep gave us a demo of the SOS feature.
    Jakob Schiller, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025
  • In a matter of minutes, a guy named Mike Ghelfi answered my SOS.
    Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Due to the outage, Verizon customers said their phones were in SOS mode.
    Kiki Intarasuwan, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2026

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