How to Use PA system in a Sentence

PA system

noun
  • Staff announcements rang out on a PA system.
    — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • The PA system is imperfect in parts of the stadium.
    — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Pro-Hamas and anti-Trump messages were briefly announced over the PA system.
    — Ashley J. Dimella , Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • But when the announcement went over the PA system that there was an active shooter on campus—and that this was not a drill—students panicked.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
  • As to the school's free speech claims, the trial court found the pregame speech broadcast over the PA system at the state championship game is government speech.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Chuck played out of a two-channel Peavey 2×12 cabinet and head that doubled as a PA system for vocals.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2025
  • This system can send warnings across school PA systems, strobe lights, digital signs, desk phones and other communication tools.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Offerman took over their plane's PA system to read off a script provided by American Airlines.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Commuters can hear these announcements on the MTA PA system at various train stations.
    — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Officers used a blaring vehicle PA system to demand the suspect come out of his home, according to court documents.
    — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Kelowna airport officials said the unauthorized messages were removed and flight display systems restored, adding efforts to fully restore the PA system were ongoing.
    — Martin Goillandeau, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Investigators and lawmakers on the panel were mystified as to why Eastland hadn’t ordered a large-scale evacuation over the PA system or gone cabin-to-cabin to ask girls to evacuate by foot.
    — Ashley Killough, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
  • During the journey on Monday from Crete to the city of Palermo in Sicily, Italy, an announcement was made over the ship’s PA system that a crew member had gone overboard.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • In the dining room, the pulsating thrums of Bollywood tunes are frequently interrupted with the summer camp crackle of a PA system, announcing names for food pickup to people who linger in the cavernous space like eager travelers waiting to board their plane.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 July 2022
  • An estimated 7,000 people filled the open plaza near City Hall, where speakers addressed the crowd from a PA system set up near the Triumph of the Human Spirit fountain.
    — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The song, written by the comedians David Baddiel and Frank Skinner with the Lightning Seeds, had been played over the PA system a week earlier against Scotland and had gone down reasonably well.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • During his technology update, Soltani shared plans for overall technology upgrades at the school, including a new audio-visual system for the Performing Arts Center and replacing the audio and campus-wide PA system.
    — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The statement over the arena’s PA system was nearly drowned out by a raucous cheer, and the energy in the building never faded until the UConn women’s basketball team was holding its Big East championship trophy under a rainbow shower of confetti.
    — Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Stephen Bradley, courtesy of Quark Expeditions Aboard Quark Expedition’s ice class ship Ocean Explorer, the expedition leader’s voice wakes guests over the PA system in the morning before breakfast.
    — Cassidy Randall, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • In her junior year of high school, Naperville Central basketball coach Andy Nussbaum played an April Fool’s Day prank by announcing over the school PA system that Parker planned to forego her high school eligibility to sign with the New York Liberty.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025

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