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How to use phonograph in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Phonograph means a device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe. Example: “Ziggy bought some diamond needles for his hi-fi phonograph.”

More sentences with phonograph

  • Ziggy bought some diamond needles for his hi-fi phonograph.From the entry needle
  • Thomas Edison was the inventor of the phonograph.From the entry inventor
  • His greatest success has been with the “juke boxes”, the nickel-in-a-slot automatic phonographs.1939 December 18, Life, p. 27. From the entry jukebox
  • Fohsnip conducts tutorials, teaching his pupils from phonograph records of the foremost maestros of sneezery.1930 October 18, Dr. Seuss [pseudonym; Theodor Seuss Geisel], “Three Fine Social Arts We Are Prone to Neglect”, in Jack Shuttleworth…. From the entry sneezery
  • The nurses put a record on the great tubalike phonograph.1994, John H Davis, The Guggenheims: An America Epic. From the entry tubalike
  • You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!1933, Groucho Marx, Duck Soup (movie). From the entry vaccinate
  • He mastered a process of producing gold-molded submasters that could be played on the phonographs people were now buying for their homes.2014, John Milner, Benson's House, page 196. From the entry submaster
  • The toy includes a pullstring phonograph and a mechanism for preventing inward movement of the string until the predetermined operation is performed.1975, Gazette Du Bureau Des Brevets. From the entry pullstring
  • “Hey, Clever,” he said to our bombardier, “will you-all do a fellow a big favor and carry my phonograph records under your seat?1943, Ted W[illiam] Lawson, edited by Robert Considine, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 52. From the entry record-player
  • This would not happen, they said, if the companies recorded at a low volume level and depended on amplification by the phonograph to step the volume up.1940, The Nation, J.H. Richards, page 691. From the entry overcutting
  • He had buttonhole bouquets and all the flap-doodles that belong to a swell feed, and had his colored man grinding out music with a phonograph until the talkin' time came.1907, American Thresherman - Volume 10, page 46. From the entry flap-doodle

Meaning of phonograph

  1. noun A device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.
  2. noun A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records.
  3. noun A record player.

Full definition of phonograph

Questions about phonograph in a sentence

How do you use phonograph in a sentence?
Phonograph is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Ziggy bought some diamond needles for his hi-fi phonograph.”
What is a short sentence with phonograph?
“Thomas Edison was the inventor of the phonograph.”
What does phonograph mean?
Phonograph means a device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.

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