Voice-amplifying device

Usage examples of megaphone.

He looked at his watch and as the second hand touched the top stepped up and raised the bugle to the megaphone, and the nervousness dropped from him like a discarded blouse, and he was suddenly alone, gone away from the rest of them.

Prewitt lowered the bugle slowly and let the megaphone rest in its swivel.

The Chief said, and they all stopped talking then and turned to look at the corner of the quad where the guard bugler was raising his horn to the big megaphone to sound Tattoo.

In the corner of the quad at the megaphone, among all the men running back and forth, the guard bugler was blowing The Charge.

Down below the loading detail dived out to pick up the clips in the lull, and the bugler ran back to the megaphone.

I can see him, El Jefe, standing outside with his megaphone, saying all is forgiven, mad dog surrender .

Roland bawled something through his megaphone, but it was muffed by the sucking, washing noises of the water between the ships.

All these noises came up to the two on the tower smally, as though they were listening through the wrong end of a megaphone.

Deprived of those walks, he followed the tradition of artisanal ingenuity in the Bastille by adapting into an improvised megaphone the metal funnel used to deposit his urine and slops into the moat.

This was called a stentorophonic tube, and seems to have been a sort of gigantic megaphone or speaking-trumpet.

The spirits most often speak by means of raps on the table, but Katherine tells me that the spirit of her little boy spoke directly, through the floating megaphone.

There had been seventeen contestants, avid for the Halitosis Crown, and by the time the puffing was completed, what with the ceremonial manner in which the man in shirtsleeves brought each one to the chair of trial, and the fuss that the phony nurse made in cleansing the megaphone, the platform reeked of Listerine, and I doubt if the Giant Blunderbore, after a heavy meal of human flesh, could have penetrated it with his dreadful breath.

Commissioner Charles Dusseau jokingly suggests that lobbyists bring megaphones to the meetings and holler their advice.

Those damn dirges are still running around my brain, like a tone-deaf rat with a megaphone is trapped inside my head.

He leaned over the bridge rail with the megaphone and called aft: 'Let it go.