How to Use beeper in a Sentence

beeper

noun

• His study subjects carry a beeper with them for about a week.
  — Cassandra Willyard, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2015
• Put an old cell phone or beeper to good use too and clip it on your waistband to complete the look.
  — Caylin Harris, Country Living, 13 July 2020
• The person next to me is diabetic and wears a beeper that goes off all day long.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 5 June 2021
• Napoleon was at home sleeping on a Sunday morning when his beeper went off.
  — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2020
• When the beeper went off, the subjects jotted down what was going on in their minds just before.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2022
• Ask your co-worker if putting her beeper on vibrate would work for her, because the sound distracts you.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 5 June 2021
• Their initial plan was to launch a service that would make checking beeper messages easier.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 29 May 2024
• The latest version kicks off with a moody set piece before a gun shot and thudding drums make way for a beat that sounds like a drowning beeper.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
• When cell phones took over, Levy abdicated beepers and went into neon signage.
  — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 8 Jan. 2018
• Talk of ultrasonic beepers that would ward off sharks mid-assault is everywhere.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2019
• Explosives were implanted inside the beepers, the source added.
  — David Brennan, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2024
• Some vehicles and locations had CB radios, and there were a good many hand-helds and beepers.
  — Susan Harfouche, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
• In the 1980s, schools sought to ban beepers, claiming that they were tied to drug deals and classroom disruptions.
  — Jennifer Huddleston, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
• No one reported seeing a parachute before the aircraft crashed, bursting into flames, nor were beeper signals heard.
  — Kendall Trammell, CNN, 8 Aug. 2019
• Epstein's secretary would contact her by email, beeper or her family's landline to set up a meeting, Araoz said.
  — NBC News, 10 July 2019
• The days of coordinating criminal activity by beeper and pay phone are long gone.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2021
• Karen Maskarinec's beeper goes off when a nurse or social worker at Providence believes a patient nearing death will be alone.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2018
• The book is a dialogue built around eighteen moments in the mind of a beeper-wearing recent college graduate named Melanie.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
• Diaz wriggled into the jacket of his uniform and unfastened the Motorola beeper on his hip.
  — ProPublica, 9 Apr. 2021
• Even doctors, the lone significant holdout for the technology, are giving up their beepers.
  — David Becker, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2006
• For Skunk's time machine clue, the Men in Black unveiled a beeper showing the numbers 607.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 20 Oct. 2021
• Garmin has added a speaker and microphone to the Fenix 8, where the Fenix 7 Pro only has a basic beeper.
  — Andrew Williams, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• Two beeper collars chimed to life, no GPS, just a compass hanging off his lanyard with a traditional flush counter.
  — Outdoor Life, 11 Nov. 2020
• The beeper indicating when protons were flowing into their apparatus dated back five decades, said Brown, who helped find all the pieces.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Feb. 2021
• Yet there was no denying the radio-directional equipment, which located the satellite beeper directly in the center of town.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 26 June 2019
• Long before most of us had smart phones all but glued to our bodies, Hurlburt designed a beeper that research subjects wore in their ears and sounded randomly throughout the day.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2022
• At the meeting, as Ora’s allotted 1 minute concluded and the beeper sounded, no one stopped her from continuing to talk for nearly four.
  — Nanette Asimov, SFChronicle.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• Well, so far Israel has not claimed responsibility for those exploding beepers and walkie-talkies, Margaret.
  — CBS News, 22 Sep. 2024
• Looking for what sticks and what doesn’t, looking for the lightening in a bottle that helped a guy who went away when beepers were all the rage and spent more than half his life in prison get through the noise and negativity online.
  — Helen Ubiñas, Philly.com, 17 July 2017
• While users of these old-school technologies won't feel the impact immediately, a global power shifting away from the likes of landlines and beepers is an early signal of their eventual end elsewhere.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2023