How to Use shortwave in a Sentence

shortwave

noun

• Anyone with a shortwave radio could hear him.
  — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2026
• Sirhan also dabbled in shortwave radio and had a set in his room at home.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 4 June 2018
• The second is what’s known as an upper-level shortwave trough.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
• In that remote location, most news came to us by shortwave radio.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 20 July 2019
• And then a dozen students trooped up to a bank of shortwave radios and read their questions into the mike.
  — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2018
• Fronts or shortwave systems often provide the lift to set off bigger batches of storms.
  — Leigh Morgan, al.com, 17 June 2019
• On Tuesday, expect a cloudier day as a weak shortwave moves through the region.
  — Nelly Carreno, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
• President Biden’s voice kept fading in and out, like a shortwave broadcast from long ago and far away.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Aug. 2021
• Its last shortwave broadcast before the Ukraine war was in 2008.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
• The next shortwave bringing clouds and shower chances arrives Wednesday evening.
  — Rosemarie Stein, OregonLive.com, 30 May 2017
• The service beams its Uighur-language reports for two hours each day via shortwave radio and satellite.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• That disruption caused shortwave radio blackouts on the sunlit side of the planet.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 Apr. 2026
• These conditions are in response to a passing upper level shortwave and surface cold front.
  — William Lambers, Newsweek, 9 Mar. 2025
• This idea that he should be sent to an engineering facility for helping shortwave radio around the world doesn't make any sense at all.
  — David Folkenflik, NPR, 6 Aug. 2025
• The meandering whine of the supercharger sounds like there is a shortwave radio behind the seats.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• The weather service said several shortwave disturbances will move through the region and could set off storms along a boundary draped across the state.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 15 June 2023
• Slowly, most of the big names, including Sony, retired their portable shortwave lines.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Jan. 2019
• One is a shortwave infrared view highlighting the very intense heat from the Thomas Fire with black, orange and red pixels.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2017
• There was a shortwave radio at the school, and when Kim-boy was older, almost every home had a CB radio.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2023
• And and it was stood up to monitor Axis powers and their propaganda through shortwave radio.
  — CBS News, 8 Mar. 2023
• The shortwave show, not so much, said Nolan Udall, who met Cooper when he was hired as a handyman to patch his roof and fix his water heater.
  — AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• As a shortwave trough sweeps through later in the day on Thursday, some rain will move in and bring a little relief to the region during the afternoon hours.
  — Lissette Gonzalez, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
• What the Chief said over the next six minutes or so was something that Nazi troops listening to their shortwave radios had never heard before.
  — Marc Wortman, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2017
• This is a portable AM/FM/shortwave radio that can pull in shortwave stations from all over the world.
  — Dallas News, 26 May 2022
• The Euro model, which has been more accurate in handling these shortwave troughs over the next week, has a major ice storm occurring as the rain arrives.
  — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
• Such a shortwave trough will be crossing the Mid-Atlantic region this afternoon, moving east from the Great Lakes.
  — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 10 May 2018
• The market for expensive shortwave radios collapsed in the early 2000s.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Jan. 2019
• At the same time, an approaching shortwave, or high-altitude pocket of cold air, low pressure and spin nestled within a weak dip in the jet stream, will swing out of the northwest and slip over the surface low.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• By the morning of the 5th, Duluth was virtually isolated from the outside world except for shortwave radio.
  — Star Tribune, 3 Mar. 2021
• These will reinforce cloud cover across our region, and the shortwaves on Thursday and Friday may induce some isolated showers.
  — Trey Fulbright, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026