How to Use audiotape in a Sentence

audiotape

noun
  • The program was recorded on audiotape.
  • The narrator of the audiotape sounded an awful lot like the narrator of the video.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • He is joined on the audiotape by Eddie Lowery, who was Ouimet’s 10-year-old caddie.
    Bill Pennington, New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • Which friendships will stay strong throughout what is sure to be a season full of secrets, lies, and audiotape?
    refinery29.com, 10 May 2018
  • Giuliani did not respond to CNN's requests to comment about the new audiotape.
    Marshall Cohen, CNN, 8 June 2021
  • The murderer and necrophile, who died in 2018, narrates his story through a series of audiotapes recorded in his jail cell.
    Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Twenty-five years ago, a man in Mattituck, New York, came across a collection of audiotapes in his basement and put them aside for a rainy day.
    Andrea Michelson, Smithsonian, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The debate came two days after an audiotape emerged in which Trump was heard bragging about groping women.
    David Alexander, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Jackson and his team combed through sixty hours of Beatles film and even more audiotape from more than half a century ago to tell the story anew.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The recognition rate fluctuates depending on the clarity of the audiotapes and the loudness of the background noise.
    Steve Ayan, Scientific American, 15 May 2018
  • The final piece of evidence heard in court during Wednesday’s session was an audiotape of Leiteritz’s two phone calls to 911.
    Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Secretly recorded audiotapes of Capri's phone calls provide a vivid picture of his role.
    Robert Anglen, azcentral, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Directed by Lisa D’Apolito, the movie is stitched together with many of Radner’s own words, from audiotapes, diary entries and home videos.
    Sopan Deb, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Before that anthem scene, the Utah and New Orleans contingents bowed their heads and listened to audiotape of players and coaches around the league declare the need for long-overdue change.
    Dallas News, 31 July 2020
  • Jean wrote and performed many one- woman shows (assisted by Gary Waite) and was active in performing on video and audiotapes.
    courant.com, 23 June 2019
  • For Detective Gamber, this case was becoming one of sex, lies and audiotape.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 27 May 2017
  • To legal observers and, indeed, to pretty much anyone who could hear, the audiotape sounded like an admission of guilt.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 June 2023
  • Faughn said in a column posted to his site Thursday that the payment was for the audiotapes that Watkins' client had recorded of his ex-wife speaking about her encounters with the governor.
    Bryan Lowry, kansascity, 3 May 2018
  • The aid dried up as oil prices tumbled and leaked audiotapes appeared to show el-Sissi speaking poorly of his Saudi benefactors.
    Associated Press, Washington Post, 4 June 2017
  • Before the full House could vote on the articles of impeachment, a previously undisclosed audiotape was released that made clear Nixon had a role in the cover-up.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2019
  • On top of all that, defendants have the right to confront their accusers, but machine testimony, as it’s called, may be based on as little as 20 seconds of audiotape.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Secretly recorded audiotapes of Capri's phone calls provided a vivid picture of his role.
    Robert Anglen, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2020
  • An audiotape of their 2016 meeting, in which Janiak berates the parents, provides one of the more chilling moments of the documentary.
    Washington Post, 25 June 2020
  • The six-year-old girl heard wailing on a famous audiotape released by ProPublica last month is still 1,000 miles away from her mother, who speaks to her daughter in twice-weekly phone calls.
    Kaila Philo, The New Republic, 6 July 2018
  • The 15 hours of audiotape recordings, filed shortly before Friday's noon deadline, detailed the last chaotic minutes of Taylor's life.
    Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2020
  • After filing a number of lawsuits, Zhang provided more than 20 videos and audiotapes to the police, with a number of clips and stills becoming public online.
    Jing Zhang, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Might some even silently cheer the altercation captured on audiotape?
    Kurtis Lee, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
  • After reviewing the audiotape, V.F. stands by Peretz’s story as published.
    Vanity Fair, HWD, 3 Aug. 2017
  • An independent commission should be established to draw new district lines, avoiding any backroom dealing of the type exposed by the audiotape, the group’s interim report states.
    David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Beset by scandal — four criminal cases and the leak of an embarrassing secret audiotape in just four years — the Los Angeles City Council could take an important step toward transforming itself this week.
    David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023

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