radio microphone
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The Aberdeen fans, 20,000-strong and deafening, blasted out their joy while midfielder Ante Palaversa approached a live radio microphone.
From BBC ● May 24, 2025
But this time he’s there strictly as a visitor, he won’t intrude on the radio microphone that will be manned by Monday and Stephen Nelson during the Series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
And in 1952 he repositioned Walter Cronkite, a 35-year-old commentator, from his comfort zone behind a radio microphone to anchor the first television broadcast of the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2019
When a radio microphone was put in front of diplomat Elihu Root, he is said to have responded: “Take that away. I can talk to a Democrat, but I cannot speak into a dead thing.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2017
Sitting at his radio microphone, Royal Brougham exulted at the triumph of his favorites.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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