How to Use analog in a Sentence

analog

1 of 2 adjective

• It receives an analog video signal and converts it to a digital signal.
• Telephone lines carry data in analog form.
• The vinyl records themselves are very analog, the music’s pressed into the vinyl.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Feb. 2022
• What does an old, analog phone have to do with the military?
  — Russ Read, Washington Examiner, 21 Jan. 2020
• The old one, raised in 2007, is now analog by today’s standards.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2021
• These earthy, analog metaphors, though, betray the centuries between us and the monks who wrote them.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
• The remix hits hazy with analog edge, filling your head with the smoky madness of a night underground.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 19 Feb. 2020
• But truth be told, my favorite devices are analog: my friends, my cat, the soup, the fire, the Amazon driver.
  — Kc Cole, Wired, 22 Dec. 2021
• And the coolest thing for young people is to make compilations again, analog stuff.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 May 2023
• For a generation new to vinyl records, the Sound Burger is a doorway to the joy of analog music.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• The technology-free zone forces you to keep track of your people analog-style.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2018
• The old cars, tinny and gray, with analog destination signs, could meet the same fate as BART’s legacy trains.
  — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• Designing the Analog Front-End Figure 5 shows the analog front-end used in this design.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2018
• What was once a slow, analog process that required heaps of grit and know-how has been automated and made available at the push of a button.
  — Ben Stewart, Popular Mechanics, 18 May 2016
• There are custom watch faces to choose from too: both digital and analog options.
  — Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping, 28 Nov. 2022
• Jonathan was bringing analog weapons to a digital fight.
  — Joe Parkinson, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
• And Ars readers will be glad to know there is not a single touchscreen in the T.50—all the controls are analog, as is the big tachometer directly in front of the driver.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2020
• The new controller maintains the same basic design of the Neo Geo CD’s gamepad, with an analog stick on the left, start and select buttons in the middle, and four face buttons on the right.
  — Jon Porter, The Verge, 5 July 2023
• When will my analog measure of a tight grip really factor into a game or app?
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 28 June 2019
• Less than two feet wide, the Solo 5 has inputs for digital and analog devices.
  — Sean Piccoli, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2020
• This was pre-Pro Tools, so the edit required razorblade splicing of analog tape.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 27 July 2021
• One of those faces looks very much like some of the analog alarm clocks of old, especially at night when the clock face’s digits or analog clock indices and hands switch to a dim red.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 13 June 2023
• The tech-centric approach is new at Mattel, which still makes about $1 billion a year from a very analog product: Barbie dolls.
  — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2017
• That was the day all analog TV service was converted to digital.
  — Paul Sassone, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2017
• Next on the road ahead, IBM will delve into the world of analog computation, which could yield high performance and low power.
  — Karl Freund, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• Now, Goodman aims to be the storyteller bringing the decidedly analog world found among stone and dirt and ash vividly to life.
  — Liz Leyden, Smithsonian, 30 Oct. 2017
• But its origins — as a Werder Bremen fan site — were distinctly analog.
  — New York Times, 21 June 2021
• But this is more than an ode to nostalgia and romance, or a yearning for analog objects in a digital world.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 19 Nov. 2018
• Highly flammable, nitrate film was one of the most flagrant mixed blessings ever bestowed on an analog art form.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
• The truck was undoubtedly analog, with a noisy engine and a broken radio.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2021

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analog

2 of 2 noun

• Looking for analogs There appear to be few past years like this one, Klotzbach said.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
• The running, jumping, deeply analog Ethan is the perfect man to stop it—right?
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 July 2023
• Wu-Tang’s passion for chess as an analog to life has long been a matter of record.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2023
• In the Si, the driver faces a gauge cluster with an analog speedometer and a digital tachometer to the left.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 14 Aug. 2023
• This genre, while bizarre, does have analogs, albeit ones that seem far more aligned with the public interest.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
• In the years since, Dion recast her analog image for the Instagram era.
  — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
• And this one’s hearkening a bygone era when life was analog.
  — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 1 Apr. 2023
• Records are analog recordings that capture the entire sound wave.
  — Jay L. Zagorsky, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2023
• And while that's a lifesaver for remote work, it's also left many of us craving something a bit more...analog?
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 9 Dec. 2022
• Place this pick in the soil like other analog probes, and the easy-to-read one-to-10 dial will indicate your plant’s moisture levels.
  — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Sep. 2023
• The answer was ingeniously analog: Brown placed a Sprite can in front of the prints to trick her iPhone into not correcting the color of the prints.
  — Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2023
• Still, the Indiana group of last decade could serve as a solid analog for the current Rockets with Vogel leaning the way.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 17 Apr. 2023
• Each button has a more responsive, tactile click, and the analog sticks feel roughly the same size as Nintendo’s Joy-Con for the Switch.
  — Quentyn Kennemer, The Verge, 4 Mar. 2024
• Inside — a large mattress bed and comforter, drawers, shelves and the twinkling LED lights of a tabletop tree lamp atop, an analog clock hung above.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2023
• The adapter is sold on its own and in bundles with certain models of Yamaha analog mixing consoles.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2024
• These analog calculators came in metal, wood, plastic and even bamboo, and they could be found all over the world.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
• Wired headphones use an analog connection to transfer sound from the headphone jack on your device to the drivers in your ears.
  — Zoë Hannah, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2023
• Display Type Like with any clock, the display comes in two options: digital or analog.
  — Deanne Revel, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Mar. 2023
• For the mid-century design lover, this Wideboy alarm clock is a stylish analog choice that will look great in your bedroom or home office.
  — Men's Health, 21 Feb. 2023
• The player station, meanwhile, is equipped with power switches and a pair of analog trigger controllers so that two cars can be raced at a time.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2023
• That included the use of Imax black and white analog photography.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023
• The power grid today is in flux as its analog devices go digital.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2024
• The original album and single discs are cut from the original analog tapes.
  — Matthew Ismael Ruiz, Pitchfork, 12 Oct. 2023
• There is no better way to learn the night sky than with a simple and forgiving telescope like this one, along with a digital or analog star map.
  — M. Josh Roberts, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2023
• Millennials are the last of the analog world, both of yesterday and tomorrow.
  — WIRED, 6 Nov. 2023
• The interior hasn’t been revealed but will echo the analog, switch-heavy approach of the Grenadier, with the same aircraft-style overhead control panels.
  — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2024
• The arid desert has long been considered a Mars analog for scientists — even more so when researchers came across the desert’s Red Stone Jurassic fossil delta.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
• The analog output uses the Mini’s onboard DAC to process the digital signal.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Our pick is the Withings ScanWatch with an extremely elegant analog clock face and slim watch case.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2023
• It’s become the footwear equivalent of the way luxury analog watches are always photographed with their hands set to 10:10.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2023

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