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
  • About his neck dangles what appears to be a gold record, or phonograph.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 1 Apr. 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
  • Victor winds up an old phonograph and puts on a novelty record of people laughing.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
  • The phonograph didn’t suffer from poor penmanship.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2026
  • A week later Edison had sketched out some more ideas and labeled it a phonograph in his notebook.
    — Merrill Fabry, Time, 1 May 2018
  • Meanwhile, some think that Edison invented it to place his phonograph on.
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Several old phonographs are on display in the front window and a jukebox sits nearby.
    — Vickie Snow Jurkowski, Daily Southtown, 5 July 2018
  • Tainter saw potential in the phonograph.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Instead, they were encoded in the grooves of a phonograph record bound inside the magazine.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Just one year prior, Edison had invented the phonograph to great fanfare.
    — Tara Isabella Burton, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2023
  • Her father owned a factory that produced the vinyl bricks used to make phonograph records; her mother was a homemaker.
    — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • In 1924, the election by phonograph was replaced with the first radio campaign ads.
    — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 30 Aug. 2019
  • This was a phonograph record that depicted sounds and other data portraying life on Earth.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • An Edison phonograph sits to the right, playing songs from the early 1900s.
    — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The phonograph never complained when a transcriber needed a phrase repeated.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Voyager 1 and 2 took with them golden phonograph records with images and sounds meant to reflect human culture.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 7 May 2022
  • Love had nothing to do with it — this was an unbridled musical lust that empowered the still-wimpy kid who’d once played her records on a toy phonograph.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • Both Pioneers carry a plaque, while the Voyagers carry a phonograph record.
    — Doug Adler, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2018
  • Someone had hooked up a phonograph to concert-quality loudspeakers.
    — Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The people from Golden State Phonographs have disc and cylinder-style phonographs.
    — Steven Wayne Yvaska, The Mercury News, 5 Jan. 2017
  • But undeterred, the inventor of the phonograph later created the light bulb.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2017
  • As a child, Karen loved listening to records on her father’s phonograph, which may have cultivated her love of piano.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2021
  • One room is devoted to Edison’s creations and includes a phonograph, stock ticker and talking doll.
    — cleveland.com, 29 June 2017
  • His traveling kit included films, lantern slides, projection equipment and a phonograph.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The original phonograph recording from 1917 can be found on YouTube.
    — John Edward Hasse, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017

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