RECEIVER in a Sentence
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420 example sentences for RECEIVER, such as:
1. The receiver is as bad as the thief.
2. Write and tell me how he receives you.
3. Each person receives his proper quantum.
4. A child receives its early education at home.
5. The television receiver is an electronic device.
2. Write and tell me how he receives you.
3. Each person receives his proper quantum.
4. A child receives its early education at home.
5. The television receiver is an electronic device.
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Meanings and Examples of RECEIVER
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receiver
n. set that receives radio or tv signals
n. a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 I was going to ask to see the rubies when the phone rang and Gatsby took up the receiver.
2 He set down the receiver and came toward us, glistening slightly, to take our stiff straw hats.
3 "Holding down the receiver," said Daisy cynically.
4 As Tom took up the receiver the compressed heat exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn's Wedding March from the ballroom below.
5 I didn't hear the rest of the name because I hung up the receiver.
6 "It's like being in an exhausted receiver," he thought.
7 This taciturn grating was a receiver of stolen goods.
8 He was only speaking at the side of the telephone receiver while he waited for his connection, but in giving this invitation the deputy director was humbling himself.
9 Write and tell me how he receives you.
10 "They received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of skittles," said he in conclusion.
11 Prince Bolkonski listened as a presiding judge receives a report, only now and then, silently or by a brief word, showing that he took heed of what was being reported to him.
12 All the kings, except the Chinese, wear military uniforms, and he who kills most people receives the highest rewards.
13 The soldier himself does the stabbing, hacking, burning, and pillaging, and always receives orders for these actions from men above him; he himself never gives an order.
14 They engage the services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the grurin; the grurin receives the milk of the associates three times a day, and marks the quantity on a double tally.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTA...
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTA...
15 The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so rigid in its nature that it alarms, vocations recoil before it, the order receives no recruits.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 In scandal, as in robbery,the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
2 The receiver is as bad as the thief.
3 She took a deep breath and lifted the receiver off its hook.
4 The part of a telephone you speak into and listen at is called a receiver.
5 She took up the receiver and began to dial the number.
6 The television receiver is an electronic device.
7 The wide receiver will lunge forward to grab the football.
8 The artist's agent receives commission on a percentage basis.
9 Our TV receives well since we had a new antenna put on.
10 Every person has two education, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself.
11 He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows one should never remember it.
12 She receives rent from all the people whose cottages are on estate land.
13 The party receives most of its financial support from big business.
14 Each person receives his proper quantum.
15 A child receives its early education at home.