How to Use shortwave in a Sentence

shortwave

noun
Definition of shortwavenext
  • Its last shortwave broadcast before the Ukraine war was in 2008.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
  • And then a dozen students trooped up to a bank of shortwave radios and read their questions into the mike.
    — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Sirhan also dabbled in shortwave radio and had a set in his room at home.
    — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 4 June 2018
  • The shortwave show, not so much, said Nolan Udall, who met Cooper when he was hired as a handyman to patch his roof and fix his water heater.
    — AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The second is what’s known as an upper-level shortwave trough.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
  • President Biden’s voice kept fading in and out, like a shortwave broadcast from long ago and far away.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Aug. 2021
  • There was a shortwave radio at the school, and when Kim-boy was older, almost every home had a CB radio.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2023
  • This is a portable AM/FM/shortwave radio that can pull in shortwave stations from all over the world.
    — Dallas News, 26 May 2022
  • One is a shortwave infrared view highlighting the very intense heat from the Thomas Fire with black, orange and red pixels.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Fronts or shortwave systems often provide the lift to set off bigger batches of storms.
    — Leigh Morgan, al.com, 17 June 2019
  • The next shortwave bringing clouds and shower chances arrives Wednesday evening.
    — Rosemarie Stein, OregonLive.com, 30 May 2017
  • Such a shortwave trough will be crossing the Mid-Atlantic region this afternoon, moving east from the Great Lakes.
    — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 10 May 2018
  • The service beams its Uighur-language reports for two hours each day via shortwave radio and satellite.
    — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • In that remote location, most news came to us by shortwave radio.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 20 July 2019
  • What the Chief said over the next six minutes or so was something that Nazi troops listening to their shortwave radios had never heard before.
    — Marc Wortman, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2017
  • What the Chief said over the next six minutes or so was something that Nazi troops listening to their shortwave radios had never heard before.
    — Marc Wortman, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2017
  • The weather service said several shortwave disturbances will move through the region and could set off storms along a boundary draped across the state.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 15 June 2023
  • The meandering whine of the supercharger sounds like there is a shortwave radio behind the seats.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • So are television signals, shortwave radio, AM, FM and satellite radio, and even the light from the sun and household light fixtures.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2020
  • On this day, the approach of a weak wave in the upper level flow (called a shortwave) along the Mason-Dixon Line helped trigger more widespread activity.
    — Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The blast of x-rays traveled toward earth at the speed of light, colliding with the top of our atmosphere and causing a shortwave radio blackout over the Atlantic ocean and coastal regions.
    — Eric MacK, Forbes, 3 July 2021
  • As the 36 year old Tash tells it, his father Rick landed himself on a government watch list when Rick was a thirteen year-old into ham and shortwave radio.
    — Ryan Singel, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2008
  • A shortwave of high pressure moves across the metro area by Saturday warming temperatures back up into the mid-to-upper 80s.
    — Rosemarie Stein, OregonLive.com, 6 July 2017
  • In the image of Douglas, the shortwave infrared light causes clouds with ice crystals in them to show up in orange while clouds made entirely of liquid water are white.
    — Betsy Mason, National Geographic, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The market for expensive shortwave radios collapsed in the early 2000s.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Jan. 2019
  • At the same time, an approaching shortwave, or high-altitude pocket of cold air, low pressure and spin nestled within a weak dip in the jet stream, will swing out of the northwest and slip over the surface low.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Slowly, most of the big names, including Sony, retired their portable shortwave lines.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Jan. 2019
  • Apparently, a shortwave radio station that can be heard around the world has been broadcasting since the 1980s, and nobody knows who is running it — nor does anyone claim to own it.
    — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 15 June 2022
  • More recently, the couple are shown cavorting about St. Kitts and Nevis, where Bakker claims he’s in talks with the prime minister about erecting a shortwave transmitter.
    — David Weiss, Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2016
  • In previous decades, locating the source of a distant shortwave signal would have required special direction finding equipment, but modern hams have an ace up their sleeves in the form of the public KiwiSDR network.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 July 2021

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