How to Use microphone in a Sentence

microphone

noun

• The board chair will step up to the microphone, and hold up her glass.
  — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• At the very end of the episode, Meghan and Harry had Archie take a turn on the microphone.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2024
• Karen Olvera, one of the midwives, picks up the microphone.
  — Alicia Fàbregas, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2022
• Press the microphone's off/on button at the top of the device.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
• The county clerk, Earline Wright-Hart, strode to the front and grabbed the microphone.
  — New York Times, 7 Sep. 2021
• The iconography is all there: the smile, the waves of hair, the smile, the microphone and even the butterfly ring.
  — Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
• Open the conversation and tap the microphone on the right side of the text field.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 3 Jan. 2023
• He’s one of four teens asked to come onstage and take a turn at the microphone.
  — jsonline.com, 11 Nov. 2021
• During the event, Sanders took the microphone and praised Pierce for his new role.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
• For Flatland, the loudest cheers of the night came when Butts emerged from the wings with a microphone in hand.
  — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2024
• The crew chief will have a microphone and tell the crowd when a play is being reviewed and why.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2022
• Cowboy took time to teach me how to not be scared of a microphone in the studio.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2025
• Casto grabbed a microphone to relay a change in plans to the deck crew.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022
• Chappelle asked, putting a microphone to the goat’s mouth.
  — Jordan Hoffman, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2022
• At one point in the video, Lopez can be seen singing into a microphone.
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 24 July 2024
• Next, press the microphone icon on the window that appears.
  — Kim Komando, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2023
• At one point, Ang, dressed in a black T-shirt with Elder’s name on it, walked to the microphone.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021
• Because the microphone was on, the sound echoed around the theater, which had gone pin-drop silent.
  — Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
• Not one to leave The Voice coach hanging, Carol picked up her own microphone and sang the rest of the verse with her.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 28 Apr. 2023
• Like the silent clip of just a few seconds of Luther Vandross at a microphone.
  — Beandrea July, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
• The top has buttons to kill the camera and microphone and to adjust the volume.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2022
• Fain grabbed a microphone and jumped onto the bed of a Ram pickup.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• Some of the other folks on this tour were reserved in their approach to the microphone.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
• To get Santa in front of the microphone is like winning big in the lottery.
  — Richard Howells, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• Leaders cut the sound on the video feed and Zephyr remained on the floor holding her microphone.
  — CBS News, 24 Apr. 2023
• Han Kuo-yu, at the microphone, was recalled in June 2020.
  — Joyu Wang, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• Schiff shucked the microphone and walked off with an impish smile.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• Our testers made a phone call to test the microphone and asked the person on the other end of the call how clear their voice sounded.
  — Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 2 Feb. 2023
• He’s not just the man who has held the public-address microphone for 25 years.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2022
• His younger brother, Bob, joined as lead guitarist back in 1974, bringing his own off-kilter charm to the microphone.
  — EW.com, 19 Aug. 2025