How to Use gramophone in a Sentence

gramophone

noun
  • Some moms have even made their way to the stage when their child took home a gramophone!
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Whether any of these artists come home with a golden gramophone, though, remains to be seen.
    — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Who will scoop up the most gramophone trophies on music’s biggest night?
    — Tiffany Kelly, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The singer then handed over his gramophone trophy to the child, who held the award with a big smile on his face.
    — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The room convulsed with the feverish music from the gramophone.
    — Charlotte Allen, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Just as the end of the gramophone didn't represent the end of music, the art will continue.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 8 Feb. 2022
  • His family played 78 rpm records on a gramophone that listeners had to wind up with a crank.
    — John Pope, NOLA.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The only accessory these guys need now is a tiny golden gramophone.
    — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Soldiers are drunk, women are topless, music is blaring out of a gramophone.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The sibling singers didn't take home the gramophone trophy, but bigger things were just around the corner for Halle.
    — Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The gramophone was there; his backpack and his walking stick; his mat rolled up as though there would be another evening and morning.
    — Paul Yoon, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • The microphone makes voices disappear into the ether, as the gramophone steals them out of nowhere.
    — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Before the gramophone and before the radio — and for a long time after — music was sold by the sheet and not by the recording.
    — John Podhoretz, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The competition for most golden gramophones has been fierce, with many iconic figures rising to the top.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Over the course of his career, he was nominated for a total of 13 golden gramophones.
    — Alexandra Schonfeld, People.com, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Be sure to check out Maura Johnston’s crystal ball predictions of who will take home the blingy gramophones.
    — Michael Brodeur, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The 2025 Grammy Awards have passed out the coveted gramophone for song of the year.
    — Chris Barilla, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025
  • But Grammy was chosen since the gramophone was instrumental in selling records on a massive scale.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 30 Jan. 2026
  • With five golden gramophones to take home, the singer had the perfect accessories to match her mermaid-style dress with high-neck jeweled detailing.
    — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2023
  • When the first gramophone recordings of the blues emerged a century ago, its primary recording artists were Black female singers.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2020
  • And atop the bucket list is winning a Grammy — for which they have been nominated six times, but have yet to take home the golden gramophone.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Of course, everyone who attends the Grammy Awards wants to go home with a golden gramophone, but only a few are so lucky.
    — Brande Victorian, Essence, 14 Mar. 2021
  • The stylistic flourish of Celie imagining herself and Shug on a gramophone turntable also feels out of step with the rest of the movie.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Mondrian was a fan of American jazz and would play it on the gramophone for visitors to his studio, said Küster.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • The gramophone, the TV cabinet, and the icebox have all fallen by the wayside over the past century.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The Jamaica native poses with his gramophone for best reggae album in 2004.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Adele walked away from the Grammy Awards Sunday night with all five of the golden gramophones for which she was nominated.
    — Hilary Weaver, Vanities, 13 Feb. 2017
  • There is a music room with an upright piano, wind-up gramophone and the collected lyrics of Bob Dylan—a perfect touch for the pop star.
    — Ruchira Sharma, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 June 2026
  • Zelda and Scott used to listen to their gramophone in this nook of the hotel, and a countless number of celebrities have partied here over the last century.
    — Sarah Souli, Robb Report, 12 May 2023
  • And while the former Fifth Harmony member may not have taken home the gramophone tonight, her look was certainly a winner in our book.
    — Lindsey Metrus, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2023

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