How to Use speaker in a Sentence

speaker

noun
  • I disagree with the last speaker.
  • He is an excellent public speaker.
  • These speakers are great to take to picnics, the park, or just to the backyard to hang out.
    Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2023
  • Sad to say, the speaker does not always smile and desist.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
  • This is a solid deal on the best Alexa speaker for most people.
    Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2024
  • How many votes are needed to win the House speaker election?
    Major Garrett, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Videos play super crisp as well, and the frame includes a speaker for video sound.
    Maddie Michalik, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Here is the vote breakdown from the initial round of voting for speaker.
    WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
  • And unlike many in Congress, the House speaker has not traveled to Kyiv.
    Paul Kane, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Now, a new House speaker has only days to get a funding bill passed.
    Josh Feldman, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Biden was among many speakers who didn’t mention him by name.
    Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
  • Both the president and speaker will test their powers of persuasion to line up the votes for the deal.
    Chad Pergram, Fox News, 30 May 2023
  • One set comes with two speakers and each one delivers up to 12 hours of play time on a full charge.
    Kristy Alpert, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2023
  • An obscure Townes Van Zandt track wafted through the speakers.
    Ryan Bradley, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2023
  • There are also grilled black speakers, mics, and vents around each earbud.
    Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Fill it with couches, bean bags, cushions, a TV, board games, and a Bluetooth speaker.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The front and back of the speaker sport perforated metallic grilles, with cloth grilles beneath.
    PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Something genuine, at least through the bookshelf speakers at my home.
    Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Work on that legislation in the House is on hold as a result of the vacancy in the speaker's office.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Most linguists think that those speakers were nomadic herders who lived on the steppes of Ukraine and western Russia about 6,000 years ago.
    Kurt Kleiner, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2024
  • And the speaker is certainly committed to both those goals.
    CBS News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • At one point a pair of women in tight black dresses were onstage dancing against a speaker.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Deputies have driven near the riverbeds, making speaker announcements that the areas will not be safe during the storm.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Despite having launched in 2020, the latest Echo is still a great speaker that sounds better than the newer, fifth-gen Echo Dot.
    Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Rosendale voted to oust the speaker less than 10 months after he was elected, which is the shortest term in over a century.
    Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The project is an unflinching dose of electronic music made for big speakers and sweaty mosh pits.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Find quick links for all of this, plus instructions on how to listen to The Dallas Morning News on your smart speakers and devices at dallasnews.com/listen.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Under congressional rules, the House speaker does not have to be a member of Congress.
    Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The next House speaker needs a majority of the chamber, or 217 votes, to win the coveted position.
    Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2023
  • For Johanna Jimenez, a speaker at the groundbreaking, this model changed her life.
    Nathaniel Rosenberg, Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2023

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