Use "television" in a sentence

1. The times that you’re playing games, watching television or any other time waster could be used to exercise, to read a book, to play with your kids or learn a new skill

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2. Which leads to the proposition that television may actually have a limited role in heart health "if you watch the right shows and spend your time watching comedies rather than stress-provokers," Miller cautioned

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3. His current position as a television personality has caused researchers to question the validity of previous records, or whether this Wolf Blitzer is the “real” one

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4. We didn’t have a phone, not then, nor a television, but we could always use the

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5. I watch television through shop windows

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6. The king stand in front of a television watching the news in his jammies, a gin and tonic in one hand, the remote in the other

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7. television monitor that shows the courtroom, John situated in the middle of the picture

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8. Although factual input from television and newspaper is with us all the time, and we live in a world saturated with information, I found it very difficult to remember anything specific about the other hostages

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9. The mental television screen on which I could see so many familiar outlines flickered violently through a swarming wall of static

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10. Numb now, I gazed at the silent television screen, watching black and white figures move through a scene of domestic strife, unable for the moment to comprehend what a lawnmower might be used for

11. The television in the kitchen was silent

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12. As for the other two, I could not recall the specifics of their abduction, but guessed that Aban Ganji was probably Persian and quite possibly one of the two television men taken over the summer

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13. From there, via one party conversation or another, he landed a series of job offers that culminated with him moving to London as foreign correspondent for Consolidated World News, better known as CWN, one of the many news agencies that supplied stories for the Middle East newspapers and satellite television channels

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14. Television and radio were things remembered from what seemed like a childhood fantasy

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15. I remembered the pools of gore on the streets from the television news broadcast

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16. Listening to the night-dead creaking of the building and to the faint strains of a television playing further down the hall in the room where the guards brewed our tea and relaxed when not on duty, I wondered again about this friendship

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17. Almost as an afterthought Smith allocated a small portion of his dream time as the equivalent of a galactic closed circuit television system

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18. The television is on

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19. but I want a new computer, and a fuck off television,

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20. We often see on reality television someone singing or something, and to the audience it is obvious they will never make it as a singer

21. my television because it was newer than yours

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22. and in him becoming addicted to reality television

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23. and on radio or television, in books, in conversation,

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24. The whole was intended to represent the living rooms of sumptuous Stephanian homes, even down to the television set and the welcoming fireplace effect set into a bulkhead

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25. That evening, with a four pack empty on the already crowded coffee table, their mother subjected both of the children to another verbal assault while their father sat slumped in an alcoholic stupor in front of the television

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26. They sat watching mindless garbage on the television late into the night while they consumed more alcohol and smoked so many cigarettes that they regularly exploded in apoplectic fits of coughing

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27. Over the next few weeks both Miss Jones and the young victim appeared in the newspapers and on many of the news and current affairs programmes on the television and the radio

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28. His face appeared in print and on television screens and his own background was presented to the world, just as Miss Jones’s had been

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29. Their only indirect contact was when they exchanged thanks and some brief sound bites via a television link

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30. Gantries, platforms and temporary grandstands surrounded the gallows where television crews were setting up and radio presenters were practicing their lines

31. The director of the live television special whispered into his microphone and the cameras panned in on the hangman, on the judge and on the soldier

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32. The director wanted to build both the atmosphere and his chance of a gong at the annual television awards ceremony

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33. Later that year, being the largest account holder at the great and majestic bank, and because of his newfound fame as a television celebrity, the soldier was unanimously elected as its new chairman

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34. Every journalist and commentator in the world of newspapers, television and radio, together with every member of the chattering classes and everyone who was anyone in the established elite, were all talking about the soon to be published paper

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35. Every newspaper and every television programme ran special editions and lurid news flashes

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36. Terry was the happiest sixteen year old in the world and as he said in the post match interview on television, he was over the moon

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37. The fans, the press and all of those ex-footballer pundits on the television said that Terry was a legend in the making; that he was ten times the player Chazza had ever been

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38. They attended every glitzy party, were invited to every celebrity bash, made frequent guest appearances on television and generally became the most famous couple on the planet

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39. This lovely old place was once owned by a famous television personality, whose claim to good fortune and favour was based upon his inestimable knowledge of all things horticultural

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40. The television gardener lived with his lovely wife on his modest but beautifully proportioned estate in the country, when filming and international awards ceremonies permitted

41. The gardens at the manor were extensive and with so many important assignments and projects to see to, neither the television personality nor his faithful gardener had ever found the time to finish remodelling every nook and cranny in the place

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42. The famous television gardener always said that the great oak leant the estate an air of permanence and solidity; that it was a link with the past of this small but great house; that it was history and should stand, like himself, as a symbol of greatness and stability forever

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43. He always worked with zeal, with vigour and not without considerable skill and expertise, but the truth was that the television celebrity and his wife were too busy to see the merits of his arguments about the grand old oak tree

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44. “Well, that’s amazing”, exclaimed the television gardener to his wife

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45. One day, while reading one of his master’s gardening magazines, which just happened to have an article about cottage gardens in it penned by the famous television gardener himself, old Ted read about a great national competition

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46. Entries were invited from gardeners across the land, the prize being the chance to have your very own television programme about gardening on one of the satellite television channels

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47. He was given a bright purple sash to wear, a sparkling shiny trophy to hold and was made to stand just to the left of the famous television gardener when it was time for the speeches

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48. As old Ted signed the contract for his new television programme, as the crowds cheered again and again, no one noticed the furious argument taking place between the judges

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49. As for the once famous television gardener, he soon found that many years of proud and boastful behaviour makes for a rapid fall from grace

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50. Old Ted, on the other hand, went from strength to strength, earning a small fortune from his globally syndicated television show and from a chain of franchised garden centres bearing his name that sprang up across the whole country

51. To be honest, he preferred to watch the big match on the television on a Saturday night if he could stay awake long enough

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52. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the mutual fascination that the high and the low of the land have for the world of television

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53. In fact, television is so popular in Great Britain that even the royal family, when not entertaining foreign presidents or giving the halls of Buck House a fresh coat of magnolia emulsion, spend their evenings with their eyes glued to the box

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54. Rather than employing actors to tell classic tales, to make people laugh, or to inform and to educate, he hit upon the novel idea of making ordinary people the stars of television shows

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55. Most of all, however, it was called by this name because it was funny watching other people making complete fools of themselves, and pretty soon nearly every television programme featured ordinary people trying to win small fortunes, to become movie stars and generally being the nastiest of nasties in the woodpile

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56. “Whoever can do the most amazing thing on our royal television, whoever can show the most ingenuity and talent, will win the hand of our grand-daughter in marriage together with half of our personal estates and investments as a dowry

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57. One of the contestants made a suit out of the finest electronic wizardry, which turned his body into the most beautiful, the most versatile and brilliantly clear television screen ever invented

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58. These images culminated in a sequence of grainy pictures depicting John Logie Baird, the inventor of television, as recorded at the dawn of the broadcast age

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59. Everyone in the television studio was absolutely mesmerised by the melange of imagery and by the cacophony that rose up from the merged soundtracks

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60. “That suit isn’t the most incredible thing on television

61. All eyes turned towards the huge oak doors at the far end of the abbey and there, advancing down the aisle in the once famous television suit, was the beaten finalist

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62. She stood before the man in the ruined and spectral television suit and called out to the assembled dignitaries, “He will be the one

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63. In fact, the article generated so much publicity that the young man found himself appearing on television and on radio shows throughout the country and his old but much cherished song was dusted off and given another airing by disk jockeys on every radio station that played popular music

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64. Accompanied by paparazzi flashbulbs and reality television cameramen, one by one the young man invited each and every one of the most beautiful and celebrated young ladies in the land to come and stay at his country pile

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65. They checked their legal agreements through, clause by clause and swore to each other in front of various newspaper and television reporters that they would always be true, but no matter how vehemently they protested their love for one another the doubt always remained

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66. His was a world of new technology, where television screens became ever bigger and where bandwidth expanded exponentially with the phases of the moon

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67. His main file server now sat in the living room, together with various and sundry stereo and television appliances

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68. In the living room he installed a fifty-six inch television monitor and was able to interact with online services in super-sized mode, which he found particularly useful when inspecting the assets and attributes of various potential brides from far flung lands such as the Czech Republic, the Ukraine and the Philippines

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69. Unfortunately he believed what he saw on television and I’m rather afraid that he watched a little too much of the Antiques Roadshow

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70. Lucy sat in silence at the kitchen table staring at the early morning news on the television while her mother busied herself with toast and tea, smoking the first cigarette of the day as if her life depended on it

71. However, even with the benefits of chemical sedation she dared not turn on the television or the radio unless Lucy was in the room in case she heard about crimes that might remind her about the body under the patio

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72. At five o’clock she could bear the suspense no longer and switched on the television, keeping the volume down as low as she could, desperate to find out what was happening

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73. They both assumed that the song was being played on the television when they heard the now familiar first few notes settle on top of the thick walls of late afternoon air that folded around them like hot summer blankets

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74. Having no television and no contact with the outside world meant that Helen never did see a star struck twelve year old girl from Grimsby get all tongue tied and nervous when she met the boy with the angelic voice and his band in London

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75. television shows that are full of

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76. agreed that a combination of closed circuit television, internal

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77. distractions on the television and in the pub, without any real

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78. possibility that television cameras would relay their activities to a

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79. Of course, the television cameras in question were those that had

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80. aircraft in a magazine or see one on television without

81. in front of the television

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82. watching mindless garbage on the television late into the night

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83. programmes on the television and the radio

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84. face appeared in print and on television screens and his own

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85. surrounded the gallows where television crews were setting up and

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86. The director of the live television special

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87. atmosphere and his chance of a gong at the annual television

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88. majestic bank, and because of his newfound fame as a television

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89. television and radio, together with every member of the chattering

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90. said in the post match interview on television, he was over the

91. those ex-footballer pundits on the television said that Terry was a

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92. appearances on television and generally became the most famous

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93. now, appeared on television screens and in newspapers across the

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94. important assignments and projects to see to, neither the television

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95. The famous television gardener always said

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96. truth was that the television celebrity and his wife were too busy to

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97. “Well, that’s amazing”, exclaimed the television gardener to his

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98. appreciated that it even came to bear the famous television

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99. And through it all, in their quiet moments, the famous television

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100. your very own television programme about gardening on one of the