How to Use transistor radio in a Sentence

transistor radio

noun
  • The characters lived in huts, survived on coconut cream pie and fish, and somehow got excellent reception on their transistor radio.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The portable transistor radio, which appeared just in time for Christmas in 1954, became a consumer blockbuster.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • For the last century, the subsequent invention of the car and transistor radio, television, the computer, the internet and mobile communications have increasingly enabled us to listen to music at will.
    — Mike Hanlon march 22, New Atlas, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The challenges did not discourage Catsimatidis, who recalls listening to WABC on his transistor radio as a student attending Brooklyn Tech High School in the 1960s.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
  • But his family’s economic situation in Mumbai, India (then Bombay) in the 1950s and 1960s steered him to engineering—specifically electronics, thanks to his interest in recent innovations embodied in the pocket-size transistor radio.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2022

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