How to Use walkie-talkie in a Sentence

walkie-talkie

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Definition of walkie-talkienext
  • Help kids stay safe and have fun with this walkie-talkie set.
    — Nor'adila Hepburn, Southern Living, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Ryan’s walkie-talkies and the van driver’s radio wouldn’t transmit far enough.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • In a big, bustling school full of squeaky soles, walkie-talkies and young people, moments of silence can be hard to come by.
    — Elisabeth Egan, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Strikes this week follow the explosion of pagers and walkie-talkies throughout the country last week.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Kate volunteers to guide the contestants in the tunnels via walkie-talkie.
    — Molly Fitzpatrick, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Don’t bring chairs, balloons, totems, whistles, air horns, pets, chains or walkie-talkies either.
    — Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Over the past two weeks, Israel has set off explosions inside pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah in Lebanon.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Often, steel wool can be found in a camping mess kit, and 9-volt batteries are often used in walkie-talkies.
    — Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 28 June 2023
  • His thief is deposited via helicopter onto the roof of the building, while a voice on the other end of a walkie-talkie guides him through the mechanics of the heist.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2023
  • All day, as campers move in flocks from the dining hall to swimming, to crafts and archery, to their bunks, Klein zips around camp in a golf cart, outfitted with a fanny pack and a walkie-talkie.
    — Ellen Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
  • All day, as campers move in flocks from the dining hall to swimming, to crafts and archery, to their bunks, Ms. Klein zips around camp in a golf cart, outfitted with a fanny pack and a walkie-talkie.
    — Ellen Barry Brittainy Newman, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Anxious officers with walkie-talkies cleared the roads, fretting that a high-level official was on the way.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Coaches who haven’t been practicing with it will need to get adjusted to the walkie-talkie and earpiece system, Kay said.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • With her clipboard, two cellphones, walkie-talkie and a sparkling visor that looks a lot like a crown, Mish, as she’s known, seemed firmly in charge of logistics.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • During the tour, each family gets their own Jeep to drive, and everyone is connected to the group leader via a walkie-talkie.
    — Megan Dubois, Chron, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Israel began a wave of airstrikes targeting the group after thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies exploded across the country on Sept. 17 and 18.
    — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Every guest is equipped with a walkie-talkie upon arrival, giving you a true sense of disconnect and safety while hiking on the trails.
    — Jess Feldman, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2024
  • The pager and subsequent walkie-talkie explosions – which together killed dozens, maimed thousands, and rattled Lebanese nerves – put paid to that scheme, for now.
    — Mick Krever, CNN, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The group said the target was the Mossad headquarters and that the attack was a retaliation for Israel's deadly pager and walkie-talkie attacks last week.
    — Barak Ravid, Axios, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The first rule of Fear The Walking Dead is that walkie-talkies are the most powerful technology humankind has ever invented.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • With features like an adjustable volume level, a push-to-talk button, and great sound quality, these kids’ walkie-talkies are downright fun.
    — Katrina Cossey, Parents, 16 July 2024
  • In the same vein, since the R1 uses a push-to-talk button—like a walkie-talkie—to trigger the voice command prompt, there's no wake word, so the R1 doesn't have to constantly listen to you the way most popular voice assistants do.
    — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Early on, before the fateful atrium jump, the couple keeps up their playful love talk on a busy set by murmuring spicy nothings to each other on their walkie-talkies.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
  • The set itself is fun to construct—with neat additions like a police dog, walkie-talkie, security camera, and donut (of course!)—but the endless ways to play here make this set a steal for under $100.
    — Sarah Bradley, Parents, 16 Nov. 2023
  • With an hour to go before the vigil, an organizer who called herself KK handed out walkie-talkies as everyone turned off their phones.
    — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • While exploring the town, use the new walkie-talkie conversation system to connect with local contacts.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Our first drive started off fairly tame, but things took a dramatic turn after Stiglingh got word on his walkie-talkie that a pair of leopard cubs had been spotted in a different part of the reserve.
    — Vanessa Wilkins, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2023
  • On the way up, at the various lookout points, there are young boys with walkie-talkies — called halcones — who have been recruited as organized crime spotters to warn of intruders.
    — Chantal Flores, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • His death came days after several Hezbollah leaders were killed by exploding pagers and walkie-talkies, an attack widely attributed to Israel.
    — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Those blows stretch from thousands of exploding Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies to killing the group’s iconic leader of three decades, Hassan Nasrallah, and launching a so-far limited ground incursion into southern Lebanon.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Oct. 2024

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