pager

Example Sentences

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Then the Israelis brought pagers made of other materials for senior administration officials.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

Hezbollah had decided to equip members with low-tech pagers for communicating rather than smartphones which it feared could be used by Israel, its arch-enemy, to gather sensitive information about the group.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2025

This decision is one of the best things about “Holland,” which brims with recently retro production design in Windows desktop computers, early cell phones and pagers, tapes rented from video stores and high-rise dad jeans.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2025

Here, we’re in a world of phone booths, pagers and bulky computers no one knows how to work, of Walkmans and videotape, which both simplifies and complicates the action.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2024

The kids who carried pagers communicated in code, spelling out their messages with digits.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng