Sentence examples for lousy reception from inspiring English sources

Their villa had casually displayed 15th- and 16th-century paintings and sculptures, while a soccer match buzzed on a TV with lousy reception.

But cynical me — the one who feels perpetually squeezed by everything and anything that can wiggle its greedy hand in my pocket — could anticipate the impending rate hike with as much certainty as the lousy reception on my iPhone.

Better yet, I would have notified police, who could have written the pair up for a fine and the loss of cell-phone privileges — or at least receive lousy reception — for as long as a year.

I, however, still have lousy TV reception.

Paying too much for lousy cable reception?

And at River Run Bed and Breakfast on Main Street, there's an added incentive: lousy cellphone reception.

Color has been controversial because it raised so much venture capital – some $41 million – and had such a lousy launch reception.

Or you might find that (thanks to lousy cellphone reception) a landline is a necessity at the new place, even though using only cellphones worked fine at the old house.

Every day my commute takes me on a miasma of interstates and beltways and through tunnels with lousy radio reception.

If you're on your cell as you approach a checkpoint, you have to say to the person on the other end, "Saytara, asif" — "Checkpoint, sorry"— almost always twice because reception is so lousy in this country.

The reception in here is lousy!" Deirdre Flanagan Ward My almost-7-year-old granddaughter, Katelyn, recently saw the movie "Charlotte's Web" for the first time.