Sentence examples for switch on a radio from inspiring English sources

"You can't switch on a radio or a TV, even at home".

You couldn't switch on a radio, or a television set with out hearing Adele's voice warbling with the swirling regret of a lost love, her trademark...what?

Enter Hegel, Tolstoy, Sophocles and WH Auden, among many others, expert witnesses in his diverting, often infuriating quest to pin down the reasons why we dutifully switch on a radio at one or a TV at six in order to be told that This (or That) is The News.

If you switch on a radio and you hear people discussing and reading poetry you will hear someone read from, say, the Wasteland, and then read out some lines from Joni Mitchell in a hushed voice of reverence.

When the banking system is on the point of collapse and the crisis in the Middle East seems to be turning terminal, it is uplifting to switch on a speech radio station confident enough to celebrate bell ringing and sausage making.

The coach can hardly avoid the reports and the television replays of what Ronaldinho is doing every week in the revival of A.C. Milan; he cannot switch on a Brazilian radio without hearing how much Ronnie wants to regain his World Cup place.

A hero, and a bit of polymath, in our time There was a time, before Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton and Ant and Dec ,when you could hardly switch on a telly, or a radio, without hearing the adenoidal tones of Melvyn Bragg.

As if the highlight of an American's life would be switching on a radio and hearing sound.

And perhaps why he never switched on a radio when he worked, even as the sounds of Sinatra and doo-wop bounced from nearly every corner of the borough.

At last, someone switched on a radio for the last few minutes of the speech, but the kids could barely hear it, and by then they had grown dispirited and bored, resting chins in hands or staring dejectedly out the window.

Stuart Broad took eight Australian wickets for 15 runs on one momentous morning at Trent Bridge, an execution accomplished so swiftly that most people didn't even have time to switch on their radio.