Sentence examples for walkie from inspiring English sources

At one point we could hear the terrorists on their walkie talkies".

Now the architect behind the so-called "Walkie Scorchie" has claimed its design flaws are due to a surfeit of consultants on the £200m project, and launched an astounding attack on the architectural profession in Britain.

Its jointly owned Walkie Talkie skyscraper in the City of London has focussed the sun's rays so that they have melted car parts and bicycles, while the government said it would review its plans to develop Royal Dutch Shell's headquarters, despite a green light from local authorities.

Their odd designs described by nicknames such as the Gherkin, the Walkie Talkie and the Cheesegrater are in some cases a means of avoiding imposing on St Paul's.

He added that the developers of the Cheesegrater and the Walkie Talkie had chosen different strategies to fill their buildings, which offered hope that they should be finished without any repeats of the stoppage at the Pinnacle.

It has been dubbed the "Walkie Scorchie", the new addition to London's skyline which is inadvertently creating a dangerous heat ray threatening shops and businesses in the heart of the city.

I think back to just two years ago - a chador-clad officer stationed inside a hamburger joint near Parkway with a walkie-talkie in hand to call in for back up, the unit that practically guarded the Mellat Park entrance every waking moment of the day, the van loading up unsuspecting denizens outside an ice cream shop in Gisha, the officers perched just outside the Haft-e Tir metro exit.

A clue to his former life lies in an incongruous walkie-talkie among the smartphones on his desk.

A radio plays loudly in the background, over the crackle of his security men's walkie-talkies, while two secretaries field a deskful of telephones that ring constantly.

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But his wristwatch-sized walkie-talkie did not take off with the public, although it inspired a similar gadget used by Dick Tracy, a cartoon character.Mr Gross believed that his pager, a device to alert the wearer with a message, would be seen as a boon by doctors who happened to be away from their surgeries.