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
• Just one year prior, Edison had invented the phonograph to great fanfare.
  — Tara Isabella Burton, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024