How to Use cassette in a Sentence

cassette

noun
  • The songs are available on cassette.
  • 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
  • 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
  • MDs were passed between friends with the same fervor as cassette tapes one decade prior.
    Michael Calore, Wired, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Horrorshow's game starts with a tape player in an empty kitchen, and a single cassette.
    Julie Muncy, Wired, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Flowers, his trademark cassette recorder, a media pass and a photo were displayed at his seat in the press box.
    Andrew Krammer, Star Tribune, 8 Nov. 2020
  • The assay includes a swab, a vial of extraction solution and a cassette the size of a small flash drive.
    Emma Court, Bloomberg.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Predictably, record labels have come to the rescue with reissues on vinyl, CD, and even cassette.
    Catherine Sinow, Ars Technica, 26 Nov. 2020
  • An elaborate audio system with cassette and six-disc compact-disc changer.
    Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The discs had the tactile familiarity and emotional weight of a cassette tape, but the flexibility and ease of use of a computer hard drive.
    Michael Calore, Wired, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Spiz’s Diner, made from soda cans and cassette-tape cases, was rigged with electricity by a fellow cellblock resident.
    Leslie Jamison, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2021
  • Instead, this Jones adventure takes place in a clandestine video game that was released anonymously, then copied from one audio cassette to another.
    Andrada Fiscutean, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The sound of the vinyl trumps the sound of a compact disc or cassette any day.
    Gabrielle Bunton, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2021
  • Janet Jackson was my first cassette tape as a kid in the '80s.
    Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 31 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • But that Kate Bush cassette could only loop for so long.
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 2 July 2022
  • Sadly, the days of a $6 or $8 cassette version of an album are gone.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 21 July 2022
  • There’s also a chord phone and cassette deck, which adds to its cool factor.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2022
  • One of my homies at San Quentin had a pristine radio that played CDs and cassette tapes.
    Joe Garcia, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The driver of a car delivers a cassette, which Prince is singing.
    Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The girls had recorded a fake fight on a cassette tape and then played it loudly for their mother to hear.
    Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2024
  • These days, that’s usually vinyl, as well as CD, though cassette tapes are making a very small comeback as well.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • It’s become such a downtown fixture over the decades that it’s had to be upgraded from cassette to MiniDisc and now, a hard drive containing the sounds.
    John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2024

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