How to Use cassette in a Sentence

cassette

noun
  • The songs are available on cassette.
  • Some of the guys in our crowd had heard the cassette of Girly Sound.
    Chloe Schama, Vogue, 2 May 2018
  • The same blue Hannah used to number her cassette tapes?
    Victoria Rodriguez, Seventeen, 30 May 2018
  • Somebody passed along a cassette of a singer named T-Baby Green.
    Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018
  • Boomboxes and small cassette recorders were everywhere.
    Eileen Sharkey, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
  • The posters on the wall and the selection of vinyl records, CDs, and cassettes make this record store feel like a place stuck in the mid-1990s.
    Jeremy Hallock, star-telegram, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Before the album was released, Phair recorded three cassette tapes of songs in the bedroom of her parents’ house under the rubric Girly-Sound.
    Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 11 May 2018
  • Over time, many other antiquated auto features have been ruthlessly abandoned—hand-crank starters and windows, carburetors and cassette decks.
    Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 29 May 2018
  • With Hannah no longer narrating the show via those cassette tapes, many wondered how 13 Reasons Why would continue to unpack her truth.
    refinery29.com, 21 May 2018
  • Considering how cassette tapes are seeing a revival, don't be surprised if some enterprising artist somewhere figures out a way to use Sound Paper today.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The sound of the vinyl trumps the sound of a compact disc or cassette any day.
    Gabrielle Bunton, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2021
  • Chained to the desk next to them were cheap cassette tape decks.
    Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Janet Jackson was my first cassette tape as a kid in the '80s.
    Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 31 Mar. 2021
  • When the tape filled up, Bolles turned the cassette over, hit record again and then started to bore in.
    AZCentral.com, 30 July 2019
  • Sure, Glenn replied, and shipped over three cassette tapes.
    Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Leone taped the shows and kept the cassettes alongside his many notebooks.
    cleveland, 10 Oct. 2019
  • One of the guys driving with us had a cassette tape, a series of songs that were not on the same record.
    Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The cassette tape, in Noland’s own words, tells the story below.
    Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Run the chain over the cassette cog that’s directly in line with the chainring.
    Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 1 June 2021
  • The issue was that the single took up the same space as a full cassette album.
    Matt Campbell, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Bolles had a habit of recording calls on cassette tape.
    Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 9 July 2019
  • Gen Xers will smile at the sight of VHS tapes on a shelf, and checks dropped off in cassette-tape cases.
    Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2020
  • A few days later, Larson dropped off a script and a cassette tape of him singing all the songs.
    Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The film adds the wrinkle that the voice on the cassette with which Kafuku runs lines belongs to his wife, Oto.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • But yeah, a good ball point pen on a cassette and my phone number turned my life around.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Bouchard would put the audio on cassette tapes and listen in his car.
    New York Times, 25 May 2022
  • There’s the high-tech element to vinyl; there’s no such thing in cassette.
    Geoff Mayfield, Variety, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Kids come in, and many have never seen a cassette player or a vinyl.
    Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 18 June 2023
  • That’s why her scenes with the rehearsal pianist Ronald—including one prominently featuring a cassette recorder—point in the direction of the movie that nearly was.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Earlier in the week Kiwanuka held a large lead over Lamar given his success on physical, with 87% of his final total coming across vinyl, CD and cassette.
    Thomas Smith, Billboard, 29 Nov. 2024

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