Sentence examples for static heard from inspiring English sources

The outside world is audible through the static heard on a portable radio whose antenna Lung Neaw constantly adjusts to get better reception.

Similarly, from a grim New York Times piece about high-school suicides in Palo Alto: "children are picking through the static to hear the overriding message that only the best will do — in grades, test scores, sports, art, college… "I hear students tell me that if I don't get into X, Y, Z college, I'll wind up flipping burgers at McDonald's".".

I grew up in the Connecticut suburbs, driving from the high school parking lot to the 7-11 and the mall in a dented, rusty Volkswagen, involuntarily accelerating under bridges, trying to get through the static to hear the rest of what he was saying, the rest of his completely arbitrary top-10 lists, one-sentence reductions of people and entire organizations.

It's kind of static: people have heard of her.

After reading the second draft aloud, and going through the piece for the third time (removing the tin horns and radio static that I heard while reading), I enclose things in boxes for Draft No. 4. If I enjoy anything in this process it is Draft No. 4. I go searching for replacements for the words in the boxes.

But on the rare occasion, the hissing static of officers keying the microphone can still be heard.

His cell phone rang, but all he heard was static.

And last Friday, scientists picked up growling sounds, like a thunderstorm heard through static, coming from Cassini.

I met her the night I accidentally pulled out the headphone cord from the radio and she heard the static from the little built-in speaker.

When they picked up, all they heard was static.

My cousin Barry is turning the radio dial, and he's heard this static before.