How to Use recorder in a Sentence

recorder

noun
  • But not like this—not with a recorder on.
    — Aliya S. King, VIBE.com, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Gomez then turned on his voice recorder to capture the racial slurs.
    — Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Browne has no idea what his younger self wanted to do with that recorder.
    — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
  • About once a month, one of us takes out a trusty, crusty recorder and puts in a new tape.
    — Eileen Sharkey, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
  • Why did Hollingsworth turn off his body-camera video recorder?
    — Jim Mustian, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Varvel was the chief deputy when Fontes served as county recorder.
    — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The fans set up to cool the space are overwhelming my recorder.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 12 Nov. 2025
  • And the Boeing’s black-box recorder still has not been found.
    — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Stram taught strings and recorder in local schools for 34 years.
    — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Twelve data recorders will eject in pairs and fall into the ocean.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 July 2019
  • Now the button can be used to launch apps like the camera or recorder.
    — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Turned on a recorder, took a puff, started playing some jazz.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • When the recorder turns off, the good stuff almost always comes out.
    — Kerry Crowley, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Nguyen, 58, has served as clerk-recorder since 2013.
    — Claire Wang, Oc Register, 3 June 2026
  • Young told reporters that the team did not know whether the ship had a recorder, like a black box, on board.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2025
  • The law in this area is as out of date as a Sony Beta recorder.
    — WSJ, 4 Jan. 2021
  • Iran has plenty of cameras and plenty of voice recorders.
    — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 11 Apr. 2026
  • And for so many of those hours, the digital recorder in my phone was running.
    — Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The new keyboard autofill options are very nice, as is the screen recorder.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Cavanagh served as city marshal, city recorder and justice of the peace.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The humans were asked to turn on the recorders and leave for 90 minutes.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The census recorder would have walked down the block, building by building.
    — Susanna Ashton, Hartford Courant, 28 July 2024
  • The second obstacle was that the recorder didn’t work.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 27 June 2025
  • Xavier hears different voices on the tape recorder, so the proof of life is now there.
    — EW.com, 25 Feb. 2025
  • But there were some new patterns this year, said deputy recorder Pamela Franklin.
    — Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
  • John [Carter] sinking holding his recorder.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Sumwalt said the recorder showed the train's maximum speed reached 57 mph from its last stop.
    — CBS News, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The recorder, which is one of the plane’s two black boxes, was retrieved a few days after the crash.
    — Andrew Tangel, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The aircraft did not have a recorder on board, according to Gabris.
    — Steven Hernandez, The Arizona Republic, 12 Oct. 2021
  • No cameras, cellphones or video recorders allowed.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2025

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