How to Use phonograph in a Sentence

phonograph

noun

• On the phonograph, men and women spoke from beyond the grave.
  — Neal Ascherson, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2021
• An Edison phonograph sits to the right, playing songs from the early 1900s.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 7 Dec. 2021
• Later versions of the phonograph were called the gramophone.
  — Kerry J. Byrne, Fox News, 12 Aug. 2022
• About his neck dangles what appears to be a gold record, or phonograph.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• The new statue in Milan shows Edison holding a light bulb in one hand and a phonograph in the other.
  — Fox News, 1 June 2018
• But that’s exactly what has happened to the phonograph record.
  — Dan Kopf, Quartz, 21 Aug. 2020
• Equipped with a miniature phonograph in place of a heart, the antique toy once emitted nursery rhymes.
  — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
• The lid of a phonograph player is propped open, and Louis Armstrong growls soulfully in the background.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 13 Apr. 2021
• In 1924, the election by phonograph was replaced with the first radio campaign ads.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 30 Aug. 2019
• The way people have consumed songs has changed as much as the genres and the styles, from the phonograph to the jukebox, eight-tracks to cassette tapes, CDs to MP3s, and from there to up the cloud.
  — Fortune, 1 July 2017
• In the home section, Ted has a player piano, a phonograph and a Regina Music Box made in 1898.
  — Leann Burke, The Seattle Times, 15 Jan. 2018
• A week later Edison had sketched out some more ideas and labeled it a phonograph in his notebook.
  — Merrill Fabry, Time, 1 May 2018
• The original phonograph recording from 1917 can be found on YouTube.
  — John Edward Hasse, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
• When the two men brought the Koss Model 390 phonograph to a Wisconsin hi-fi show soon after, the headphones were a hit; the larger unit, not so much.
  — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2022
• First captured in a painting in 1899, Nipper is the dog in the old RCA logo, the one listening to a windup cylinder phonograph.
  — WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
• The American inventor Thomas Edison unleashed the phonograph on to world in the late 1870s.
  — Dan Kopf, Quartz, 21 Aug. 2020
• The people from Golden State Phonographs have disc and cylinder-style phonographs.
  — Steven Wayne Yvaska, The Mercury News, 5 Jan. 2017
• Instead, they were encoded in the grooves of a phonograph record bound inside the magazine.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Nov. 2022
• My meat was a quarter-million phonograph recordings of every genre, every speed, strong to 1950s R&B and jazz.
  — Steve West, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• Recorded music goes back to Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Feb. 2022
• Led by one of the world’s great visionary inventors, with patents on the phonograph, movie camera and light bulb, Edison, Inc., went out of business in 1985.
  — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 5 June 2019
• Meanwhile, some think that Edison invented it to place his phonograph on.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2022
• Victor winds up an old phonograph and puts on a novelty record of people laughing.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
• There was the light bulb and the phonograph, of course, but also the kinetoscope, the dictating machine, the alkaline battery, and the electric meter.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
• Several old phonographs are on display in the front window and a jukebox sits nearby.
  — Vickie Snow Jurkowski, Daily Southtown, 5 July 2018
• Friedman, who buys and sells Steinways, purchased the piano last year and says he was surprised by the toothy signatures left by the inventor of the phonograph.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2022
• The twin Voyager spacecraft carry a shimmering golden record which, if placed on a phonograph, will play the sound of laughter and language and life on Earth.
  — Rebecca Boyle, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2017
• Both Pioneers carry a plaque, while the Voyagers carry a phonograph record.
  — Doug Adler, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2018
• Beneath the vehicular roar in the years around 1900 was a simmering new electronic sound, native to the telephone, the phonograph, the radio, and other forms of transmission and reproduction.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
• Egyptian star Mona Zaki will play Kulthum who from the late 1920s onwards became the first prominent Arab singer to disseminate her work to the masses via the new technologies of the times: radio, the phonograph, cinema and television.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024