loud-speaker

Perhaps the nearest to a description of it is to say this: that my contempt boils over into bad behaviour when I hear the common suggestion that a birth is avoided because people want to be "free" to go to the cinema or buy a gramophone or a loud-speaker.

Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

Batman will be standing on twelve unconscious thugs, and Joker booms over the loud-speaker Nice moves, Bats!

REVIEW: Batman: Arkham Asylum 2009

The amateur cannot challenge the actor; the householder will find it vain to go and shout into the gramophone; the mob cannot pelt the modern speaker, especially when he is a loud-speaker.

Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

At this moment the loud-speaker system boomed out the message that Tom Swift was wanted at the communications office.

I, TOO, DREAM.... 2010

Tom paused while Bud gave instructions over the loud-speaker for a renewed search.

I, TOO, DREAM.... 2010

Without explaining further, Tom flipped on the loud-speaker and began to bark orders to the crew of the Flying Lab to warm up the mammoth ship.

I, TOO, DREAM.... 2010

Now we're up to 100,000, but that's hardly enough for the media, so, a half hour after that the numbers were revised again: By 8 p.m. -- as the crowd filed out, obediently following the order to disperse given over the loud-speaker system -- the number being cited had grown to fully 200,000.

200,000 Or 20,000? 2008

Over the loud-speaker system Tom explained what had happened, ending with:

I, TOO, DREAM.... 2010

At the same time, an announcement came over the loud-speaker that the Rocket Commission representatives would arrive soon after ten o'clock.

I, TOO, DREAM.... 2010

When I spent my first day with Jed, he was continually on the phone fielding customer calls and pumping orders over loud-speaker systems in three buildings.

Who Should Run The Family Business? 2009