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How to use jukebox in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun, verb

Jukebox means a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music, with push-buttons to make selections. Example: “The jukebox belted out tunes from the fifties, and waiters shouted food orders to the cooks behind the enormous steel counter.”

Examples of jukebox by meaning

nounA software application capable of replaying tracks from a digital music collection.

  • Before you export a movie to tape, double-check the following: Make sure all unnecessary programs are closed, including your e-mail program, MP3 jukebox, and Web browser.2011, Keith Underdahl, Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies

verbTo play and listen to music from a jukebox.

  • Haven't you ever wasted money jukeboxing in the bars that are bathed in pastis and grenadine?1966, Xavier Domingo, The dreams of reason: a novel, page 75
  • She'd said she'd been jukeboxed half to death.2004, Mary Sojourner, Delicate: Stories, →ISBN, page 238
  • Behind the counter, repairing a clogged sink and making chocolate egg creams at the same time, to jukebox riffs of Patti LaBelle singing "I Sold My Heart to the Junkman," was the proprietor, Rudy.2008, Cullen Dorn, The Hierophant of 100th Street: Known to the Spirits as Infinitude, →ISBN

verbTo play (music or digital content) on a jukebox.

  • They are everywhere today, whistled in the streets, broadcasted, jukeboxed, danced to in ballrooms.1950, Arnold Gingrich, Coronet - Volume 29, page 52
  • BMI members are turning out some perfectly terrible songs which nevertheless are recorded and jukeboxed and played on the air.1957, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Monopoly Problems in Regulated Industries
  • I'm no longer thinking about TV as real time content streaming, but rather as file jukeboxing.2002, The Cook Report on Internet, NREN. - Volume 11, page 61

verbTo play or repeat as if on a jukebox.

  • Another one of her sister's old records jukeboxed on in her head.2012, Steven Wishnia, When the Drumming Stops, →ISBN

verbTo format or set up for playing by a jukebox.

  • And best of all, per-document-stored cost will be substantially under what it is on spinning spindles alone or when the disks are jukeboxed.1984, The Journal of Information and Image Management
  • Jukeboxing can put nearly 20-36 GB of information at users disposal.1994, Library Science with a Slant to Documentation and Information Studies

More sentences with jukebox

  • The jukebox belted out tunes from the fifties, and waiters shouted food orders to the cooks behind the enormous steel counter.From the entry belt out
  • The jukebox musical ‘We Will Rock You’ was written by which comedian and author?2014, Collins Quiz Master, HarperCollins UK, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry jukebox musical
  • Together they ducked out of the cold and into its dim jukeboxed interior.2002, Sylvia Brownrigg, Pages for You: A Novel, →ISBN. From the entry jukeboxed
  • His brother was the lead of a respected uptown, frequently jukeboxed Rhythm and Blues group, The Vocaleers.1983, Philip Groia, They all sang on the corner: a second look at New York City's rhythm and blues vocal groups. From the entry jukeboxed
  • Interactive in-game music is also present in another sandbox game, Minecraft, as the player can change what music they play on a jukebox.2017, Alyssa Aska, Introduction to the Study of Video Game Music, page 79. From the entry in-game
  • Frenchy was dancin' over by the jukebox, the old Wurlitzer with the neon-type lights that wrapped in an arc over the top and down almost to the floor.2004, Sam Nelson, The Addict, page 75. From the entry Wurlitzer
  • Although it is not a boisterous or brawly bar, there is a constant flow of noises from the television, the jukebox, the pool table, pinball machine, and telephone.1974, James Michael Brady, Bookmaking: The Sociology of an Illegal Occupation, page 70. From the entry brawly

Meaning of jukebox

  1. noun A coin-operated machine that plays recorded music, with push-buttons to make selections.
  2. noun A software application capable of replaying tracks from a digital music collection.
  3. noun An automated carousel for the storage and retrieval of tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.

Full definition of jukebox

Questions about jukebox in a sentence

How do you use jukebox in a sentence?
Jukebox is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The jukebox belted out tunes from the fifties, and waiters shouted food orders to the cooks behind the enormous steel counter.”
What is a short sentence with jukebox?
“She'd said she'd been jukeboxed half to death.”
What does jukebox mean?
Jukebox means a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music, with push-buttons to make selections.

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