How to Use tape recorder in a Sentence

tape recorder

noun

• Don’t act like a tape recorder and repeat it word for word.
  — Janine Schindler, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• At some point, Sun Records owner Sam Phillips turned on the tape recorder.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• Warhol was always present at one end of the frieze, holding his tape recorder at the ready.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2023
• Invite a reporter to run a tape recorder in the living room?
  — New York Times, 23 June 2018
• The tape recorder provided the complex set of commands that ran the show.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Jan. 2019
• Diana will speak into a tape recorder and hand the tapes back to James to give to Morton.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2022
• Or someone who went to a Goodwill, got a tape recorder and started there.
  — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2022
• After all, Scalfari doesn't take notes or use a tape recorder.
  — Judie Vegh, cleveland.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Someone from behind tried to reach over me with a tape recorder that landed in front of my eyes.
  — Nick Bertram For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 29 Dec. 2022
• Scientists can study the moon’s tape recorder to answer questions about the earth.
  — Dallas News, 17 Nov. 2022
• Listen carefully, with your own ears; don't turn over the job to a tape recorder to listen for you.
  — CBS News, 20 Sep. 2017
• And then at some point, their cassette tape recorder ran out of batteries.
  — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
• Do that and Star-Lord will hit play on his tape recorder as the characters throw themselves back into the fight.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 June 2021
• The original demo of this song is much more lo-fi, sounds like something made with a tape recorder.
  — Rob Ledonne, Billboard, 8 Feb. 2018
• Boris Becker’s coach, Bob Brett, once yanked my tape recorder out of my hand and took it with him to the locker room where I wasn’t allowed.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2021
• His epiphany came at a New Year’s Eve party the same year, when a friend of his parents showed him how to use a basic reel-to-reel tape recorder.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2022
• Kelly set up his tape recorder on a table while Sale sat behind his desk.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 5 Jan. 2021
• June 1981 - Injured when a bomb placed in a tape recorder explodes at a press conference.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 9 July 2021
• At one point, the boy takes out a tape recorder (oddly old-fashioned in the age of iPhones and sexting), and asks Anne to share certain secrets.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 25 May 2023
• In her prime, Joni Mitchell could convey tremendous power via little more than a tape recorder and the skeleton of a song.
  — Saby Reyes-Kulkarni, SPIN, 20 Dec. 2023
• My tape recorder was running, but my attention had shut down.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
• So the brother-in-law visits Sean's humble home and starts asking all kinds of tough questions, tape recorder in hand.
  — Jon Fobes, cleveland.com, 2 May 2018
• Stalebread Charlie had a tape recorder and taped our little nature jam.
  — Gavin Edwards, New York Times, 6 June 2019
• But then, while looking through Zep’s pocket’s to find a key to his shackle, Adam finds another tape recorder.
  — Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 14 May 2021
• At the front of the room, Satveer was still speaking animatedly into the reporter’s tape recorder.
  — Rachel Heng, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
• Failing to sell a single one, the company tried an even dicier new gadget: a tape recorder.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2013
• Using her own portable reel-to-reel tape recorder, Ball sat and chatted with the biggest stars in show business at the time, many of whom were her friends.
  — Stephen Battaglio Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2021
• When his shift ended, Lowe went to Walmart, bought a tape recorder and began documenting the slurs.
  — Sydney Czyzon, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2018
• For the next 30 years or so, Strachwitz would document his travels with a tape recorder and camera.
  — Joel Selvin, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
• Teenager John Bloomfield, a boarder at Stowe in Buckinghamshire, tested out his new reel-to-reel tape recorder at the show.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 6 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024