tannoy

IPA: tˈænɔɪ

(Britain, transitive, intransitive) To transmit, or communicate with, by means of a public address system.

Examples of "tannoy" in Sentences

The tone of the announcements made over the tannoy on my US Airways flights.
There is the noise of the tannoy and the enticing ambience of the outside world.
The tannoy loud speaker rumbles into life with atmospheric music and the crowd falls silent.
I love that you used the term “the tannoy” to refer to what we would call the PA (short for Public Address).
It seemed like a place that gave monomaniacs a tannoy: so little space to say so little, Facebook for an older wastrel.
The competition took place in the school hall, but so that all the other children could hear it was played through the tannoy in each classroom.
Luggage that went astray every time (then being expected to tip the delivery guy when it was dropped off the next day) and yes - just like you, some of the surly announcements over the tannoy, by jaded, well-past-there-useby staff.
The same thing happened at work this afternoon when resuming a podcast I'd been listening to at the gym, in competition with the usual sound system, a second music source outside, and frequent tannoy announcements about new classes.