megaphone

Baron Cohen shouts the character's catchphrases through a megaphone, with the crowd enthusiastically finishing each one.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The imagery in “Minions & Monsters” can be ingenious, like the galumphing tentacles on an oversize squid or the close-up shot that goes inside a director’s megaphone to see his tongue waggling at the screen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

"Family members must stay in the waiting room," the employee shouted through a megaphone, reminding relatives that they were lucky to be alive.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

As her fellow lawmakers cast the last votes to pass the map, Nixon yelled into a hot pink megaphone, accusing her fellow lawmakers of violating the state constitution.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026

By 1935 Moch wielded the megaphone in the JV boat that contended with Joe and the other sophomores for varsity status that season.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

After police officers had used megaphones to call on those gathered to desist from violence, they used water cannons and tear gas to temporarily disperse the crowd.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

“It was megaphones from before we started until after we left. You couldn’t get through a single testimony—including from families in Gaza—without being disrupted by these chants.”

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

High finance has always had its celebrity investors, from Carl Icahn to Bill Ackman, who use media exposure as their personal megaphones, often to talk their books.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Activists with megaphones were able to warn locals at the park before the contingent arrived, according to police sources.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025

A coast guard vessel patrolled the racing lanes, her crew sounding a siren and barking orders through megaphones, keeping the lanes clear of small craft.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Business groups, including agricultural operations, also megaphoned their displeasure.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2023

But it is the quality of the show itself, megaphoned by reviews and word of mouth, that made it into the semi-hit it is.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2018

Sometimes clashes arise with headphone-wearing runners who are blasting tunes at such a volume that they can’t hear the megaphoned voices of announcers or the directions offered by volunteers.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2016

“Do you feel safer?” megaphoned Louise Hainline, the president of Neighbors for a Better Bike Lane, the group that organized the protest.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2010

Piper megaphoned after him: “Maniac! Come back! We was just kidding! You don’t have to!”

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

Writing in The Times, Mr. Crowther declared that “Mr. Preminger’s megaphoning and some expert photography have resulted in a most vivid blend of action and New York City backgrounds.”

From New York Times ● May 26, 2016

Inflammatory health scares are generally not the fault of a public health official trying to provide the facts but the media megaphoning said facts and using the official for hyped soundbites.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2016

"Health complaints were as rare as proverbial rocking horse droppings until the scare-mongering groups began megaphoning their apocalyptic, scary messages to rural residents," says study author Simon Chapman.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2013

Our steamer-chair audience has often begged us to announce the composer and the name of each selection as we go along, and we usually appoint somebody to do this, megaphoning the titles through the window.

From Life's Minor Collisions by Frances Lester Warner

Then back came the shadow again, and a voice was megaphoning, not from below or in the rear but from right overhead.

From Our Pilots in the Air by William Perry Brown