Examples of megaphone in a Sentence
Joe Rennison, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
Truth Social is Trump’s central online megaphone, and many of its posters are Trump supporters who share conservative memes, echo his talking points and attack his political opponents.
—Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
Latto grabs the megaphone during a press conference for Hot 107.9 Birthday Bash at Radio One Atlanta on March 19.
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Lena Waithe is joined by Elaine Welteroth and Elaine U. Cho at the launch of Hillman Grad Books at Neuehouse in L.A. on March 18.
—Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2024
Ahead of the walkout on Monday, one counter-protester made anti-LGBTQ statements using a megaphone.
—Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2024
Related article Truth Social made Trump richer and gave him a new megaphone.
—Matt Egan, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
His influential endorsement constitutes a broad megaphone.
—Erin Cox, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
Under Musk’s leadership, Twitter has become a sub-functional hellscape of filth that has evolved into a megaphone for its owner to pump conspiracy theories and hate speech out onto the internet.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
The head vehicle attendant hoisted a mini megaphone to better call out whose car had just pulled up.
—Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2024
Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
Among the weirdest reactions to the Supreme Court’s June 29 decisions on affirmative action, those megaphoned by California’s political class may be the most unhinged.
—Will Swaim, National Review, 13 July 2023
For countries like India and Turkey, where a once vibrant free press has been tamed into submission and the mainstream media is forced to megaphone the government, the institutional capacity of the U.S. media to critique executive lawlessness and hold it to account remains an object of wonder.
—Debasish Roy Chowdhury, Time, 11 Jan. 2021
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Word History
Noun
1878, in the meaning defined above
Verb
1901, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
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