How to Use unmute in a Sentence

unmute

verb
Definition of unmutenext
  • This will mute or unmute your phone’s ringer and alert tones.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Feldstein, meanwhile, couldn’t quite figure out how to unmute her audio on the call—next.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 2 Dec. 2020
  • During the meeting, the board president calls on people one by one to unmute.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2020
  • In: Allowing meetings to open up with banter; unmute yourself when the dog’s barking.
    — S. Mitra Kalita, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Co-workers can tap on one another’s video feeds, unmute themselves, and then just start chatting, sort of like walking up to someone’s desk.
    — Katherine Bindley, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2020
  • How to unmute someone on Instagram Follow the same exact steps, and toggle off mute posts and mute story options.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022
  • Kelly did not speak to the court at Wednesday’s hearing; the Chicago Tribune reports that nobody could figure out how to unmute him over video conference.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Ninth graders rarely saw anyone but their teachers, and most students didn’t like to unmute themselves to speak, educators and students observed.
    — Liz Bowie, baltimoresun.com, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Families unravel over Zoom while one uncle can’t even figure out how to unmute himself.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Like millions of Americans, the justices occasionally struggled to mute or unmute themselves at the right time.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Kelly himself was present on the remote proceeding, but repeatedly was unable to unmute himself to answer when asked by the judge to confirm the status of his legal team.
    — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2021
  • This is useful, Zoom says, during a situation where a young child can’t figure out how to unmute their audio, or are physically unable to.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The administrative law judge will unmute each phone connection one at a time and will inquire into each caller's desire to comment.
    — Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Anyone working from home and getting used to video conference calls will know the feeling of forgetting to unmute or forging ahead through squawking audio issues.
    — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2021
  • On a recent day, Powell gripped her pink microphone and instructed the virtual students to unmute themselves.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Then there were students who could not unmute their microphones or simply were not paying attention while Ms. A juggled addressing the virtual students and those in the room.
    — Washington Post, 10 July 2021
  • This saves any embarrassment caused by forgetting to unmute during a meeting.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Auracast can unmute what was once a silent screen and create a more natural watching experience.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • In those situations, everyone has the ability to unmute to ask questions and interact — which can lead to distractions.
    — Iris Schneider, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2021
  • And she's noticed that teaching virtually is difficult for teachers, who constantly need to remind kids to keep their cameras on and mute or unmute themselves.
    — Lily Altavena, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2020
  • In the breakout rooms, after calls for people to unmute their mics, came introductions and discussions that ranged from the foods family had prepared to the validity of breaking the fast to get a vaccination.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Apr. 2021
  • All of which left Welch with the feeling of powerlessness unique to anyone who’s ever had to help a dad or an aunt or a grandparent recover a password or unmute themselves on Zoom or open an email attachment from the other end of a phone line.
    — Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Not long after that, Jeff Bezos appeared to unmute himself during Mark Zuckerberg’s opening statement, causing his startled face to momentarily flash across the screen.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 29 July 2020
  • On calls to discuss their companies’ quarterly earnings, plenty keep forgetting to unmute.
    — David Yanofsky, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Given that the webinar was in presentation mode, Kaplan—and the other attendees—couldn’t unmute themselves, raise their hands, or communicate with one another.
    — Eli Cahan, The New Republic, 10 July 2023
  • Two years ago, for example, many of us were repeatedly remind Uncle Bob to unmute himself during a socially distanced Thanksgiving.
    — Heard Editors, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Better yet, set up the virtual meeting so that all participants are automatically muted and only the administrator/host of the meeting has the power to unmute attendees.
    — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Remembering to unmute, however, has been the larger problem, frustrating workers at every level of organizations—including CEOs and other C-suite executives.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 13 Sep. 2021

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