How to Use audiotape in a Sentence

audiotape

noun
  • The program was recorded on audiotape.
  • Which friendships will stay strong throughout what is sure to be a season full of secrets, lies, and audiotape?
    — refinery29.com, 10 May 2018
  • Smyth told the cops that Erik had confessed to the killings in therapy and that there were audiotape recordings of it.
    — Megan McCluskey, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The narrator of the audiotape sounded an awful lot like the narrator of the video.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The audiotape was posted on his website, which is run by his son, Ahmad, also a clergyman.
    — Kasra Naji, Foreign Affairs, 17 Aug. 2016
  • Might some even silently cheer the altercation captured on audiotape?
    — Kurtis Lee, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
  • To legal observers and, indeed, to pretty much anyone who could hear, the audiotape sounded like an admission of guilt.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 June 2023
  • Giuliani did not respond to CNN's requests to comment about the new audiotape.
    — Marshall Cohen, CNN, 8 June 2021
  • Jackson and his team combed through sixty hours of Beatles film and even more audiotape from more than half a century ago to tell the story anew.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
  • He is joined on the audiotape by Eddie Lowery, who was Ouimet’s 10-year-old caddie.
    — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • The murderer and necrophile, who died in 2018, narrates his story through a series of audiotapes recorded in his jail cell.
    — Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The recognition rate fluctuates depending on the clarity of the audiotapes and the loudness of the background noise.
    — Steve Ayan, Scientific American, 15 May 2018
  • Jean wrote and performed many one- woman shows (assisted by Gary Waite) and was active in performing on video and audiotapes.
    — courant.com, 23 June 2019
  • Bin Laden himself became known only as a disembodied voice in an audiotape or a grainy image on the occasional video.
    — Richard A. Falkenrath, Foreign Affairs, 5 May 2011
  • The aid dried up as oil prices tumbled and leaked audiotapes appeared to show el-Sissi speaking poorly of his Saudi benefactors.
    — Associated Press, Washington Post, 4 June 2017
  • Twenty-five years ago, a man in Mattituck, New York, came across a collection of audiotapes in his basement and put them aside for a rainy day.
    — Andrea Michelson, Smithsonian, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Karen Bass’ Latino-Black family is everything the ugly audiotape is not.
    — Katie Licari, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Officials released photos, surveillance videos, audiotapes and a timeline of events to the public on their website Friday.
    — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2017
  • But an audiotape from nearly three decades ago that has recently surfaced in Iran throws a spotlight on perhaps the most horrific episode of the country’s clerical rule.
    — Kasra Naji, Foreign Affairs, 17 Aug. 2016
  • On top of all that, defendants have the right to confront their accusers, but machine testimony, as it’s called, may be based on as little as 20 seconds of audiotape.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The final piece of evidence heard in court during Wednesday’s session was an audiotape of Leiteritz’s two phone calls to 911.
    — Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Before the full House could vote on the articles of impeachment, a previously undisclosed audiotape was released that made clear Nixon had a role in the cover-up.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Faughn said in a column posted to his site Thursday that the payment was for the audiotapes that Watkins' client had recorded of his ex-wife speaking about her encounters with the governor.
    — Bryan Lowry, kansascity, 3 May 2018
  • Directed by Lisa D’Apolito, the movie is stitched together with many of Radner’s own words, from audiotapes, diary entries and home videos.
    — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
  • After filing a number of lawsuits, Zhang provided more than 20 videos and audiotapes to the police, with a number of clips and stills becoming public online.
    — Jing Zhang, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2018
  • The 15 hours of audiotape recordings, filed shortly before Friday's noon deadline, detailed the last chaotic minutes of Taylor's life.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Before that anthem scene, the Utah and New Orleans contingents bowed their heads and listened to audiotape of players and coaches around the league declare the need for long-overdue change.
    — Dallas News, 31 July 2020
  • Buzbee alleged Croft was caught on audiotape describing the conspiracy in detail, saying that the lawsuits would be in the press and that some former clients had already accepted money to join the effort.
    — Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
  • An audiotape of their 2016 meeting, in which Janiak berates the parents, provides one of the more chilling moments of the documentary.
    — Washington Post, 25 June 2020
  • The six-year-old girl heard wailing on a famous audiotape released by ProPublica last month is still 1,000 miles away from her mother, who speaks to her daughter in twice-weekly phone calls.
    — Kaila Philo, The New Republic, 6 July 2018

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