Sentence examples for bars of reception from inspiring English sources

At the cabin, Charlie has no cell coverage and so climbs a tree ("an inhospitable tree, if ever there was") to find three bars of reception.

And in the process, many say, they stop scouring the campus for its sparse bars of reception and lose the habit of checking their Facebook pages at every opportunity.

Mobiles in the mid-western United States cling to the few bars of reception they can get.

To actually make a call, they have to find one of the few isolatedspots on the city outskirts where one bar of reception is available.

They surreptitiously check mobiles for a rare bar of reception or pull Polo mints from Warehouse bags hidden under their robes.

Finally, about two miles up the track, he got a bar of reception on his phone and called David.

I felt my heart pound, and not in a good way, when I lost the last bar of reception a few miles north on Highway 1.

Downstairs the Amigo Bar, off reception, serves a wide range of drinks and cocktails, including the PX Martini (Grey Goose Vodka, cherry and a flambee lemon slice) and the Genever Martini (Noilly Prat, angostura and lemon peel), both costing €12.

Though mobile data and phones have improved enormously since 2006, getting one bar of 3G reception in the new house was challenging.

Apparently, it is possible to get a single bar of mobile reception in one very specific place in the house but, for your own good, it's a secret the owners are keeping to themselves.

What kind of reception do you expect?