How to Use closed-circuit in a Sentence

closed-circuit

adjective
  • The county hastily opened a conference room and closed-circuit video feed for observers.
    Mckenzie Funk, ProPublica, 8 Mar. 2024
  • In fact, there are multiple dive modes to pick from, including gas, gauge, apnea, apnea hunt, or closed-circuit rebreather.
    Gabriela Vatu, PCMAG, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Workers said managers watch pickers through closed-circuit cameras and monitor their movements.
    Anna Schecter, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Prosecutors also provided about nine months of closed-circuit television footage.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 13 July 2023
  • Officials were eventually able to track down their location with the help of closed-circuit cameras on public transportation, Ramey said.
    Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2024
  • The party will feature closed-circuit viewing of the race, DJs, all-inclusive snacks and non-alcoholic beverages.
    Melinda Sheckells, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Serna had been unstable, walking into walls and collapsing inside her cell throughout her last day — behavior recorded on closed-circuit footage but not witnessed by staff.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2024
  • It has been freshly painted and refurbished, with a daunting sign outside threatening trespassers with closed-circuit television, dogs and drone surveillance.
    Gaiutra Bahadur Keisha Scarville, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Court records describe how detectives used multiple surveillance cameras and closed-circuit television footage to determine the path the shooter took to get from the shooting site to their getaway car.
    Maggie Ybarra, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2025
  • What happened that night To reach his ruling, Lee examined notes, texts, social media messages, emails, hours of audio as well as closed-circuit television footage around the night in question.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Walmart uses cameras and closed-circuit television throughout its stores and other company property, according to its policy.
    Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The center will not be open to the public, although people can walk into the front room to view educational materials and watch admitted animals on a closed-circuit television, the group said.
    Bailey Allen, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The exhibition gave thousands of visitors an opportunity to see, and in some cases use, minicomputers, teletype equipment, high-speed copy machines, and closed-circuit television.
    IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith said officers reviewed thousands of hours of closed-circuit television recordings.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Consistent monitoring and maintenance of closed-circuit security cameras.
    Jason Henry, Daily News, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The system, which brings together information from license plate readers, tens of thousands of closed-circuit television cameras, facial recognition tools and phone call locations to identify people, has been criticized by civil liberties groups.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Grainy film from closed-circuit cameras from shore, broadcast on the website of the Giornale di Sicilia, showed the illuminated 246-foot mast of the Bayesian weathering the storm and then disappear over the course of a minute.
    Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2024
  • Hypothetically, emergency dispatchers could transmit closed-circuit or drone footage over a private 5G broadcast to emergency responders over a TV broadcast tower, even when the local cellular network is down.
    IEEE Spectrum, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Detectives used a combination of closed-circuit television footage and location data from a GPS monitor that Jackson was wearing as part of an unrelated case in order to place him at the scene as a shooter, according to court documents.
    Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The video of Mendoza’s killing, which appears to have been filmed from the perspective of closed-circuit television, has been posted to several social media accounts, said Bryan Harrison, an attorney representing Mendoza’s family.
    William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 6 Dec. 2025

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