How to Use tape recorder in a Sentence

tape recorder

noun
  • After all, Scalfari doesn't take notes or use a tape recorder.
    — Judie Vegh, cleveland.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • My tape recorder was running, but my attention had shut down.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
  • In the cold, the batteries in tape recorders and cellphones die.
    — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • And then at some point, their cassette tape recorder ran out of batteries.
    — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
  • And that was a tape recorder, which is another machine, and no one had done this.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2024
  • Sly played his tape recorder until five or six in the morning, but no one complained to him.
    — Timothy Crouse, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2025
  • 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
  • Kelly set up his tape recorder on a table while Sale sat behind his desk.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The tape recorder provided the complex set of commands that ran the show.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Jan. 2019
  • Or someone who went to a Goodwill, got a tape recorder and started there.
    — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Scientists can study the moon’s tape recorder to answer questions about the earth.
    — Dallas News, 17 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Stalebread Charlie had a tape recorder and taped our little nature jam.
    — Gavin Edwards, New York Times, 6 June 2019
  • At some point, Sun Records owner Sam Phillips turned on the tape recorder.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 18 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Her words are often heard over footage of a reel-to-reel tape recorder, in a way that draws attention to the power of her voice.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 July 2024
  • With the help of a tape recorder brought from Germany, the family was able to listen to the recording.
    — Ashley Vega, People.com, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Unfortunately, the tape recorder and tapes were stolen a couple of days later.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Judy Garland grumbled into a tape recorder in the mid-nineteen-sixties.
    — Matt Weinstock, New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • On his 69th birthday, Krapp, now a lonely man, is ready with a bottle of wine, a banana and his tape recorder.
    — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • June 1981 - Injured when a bomb placed in a tape recorder explodes at a press conference.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 9 July 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
  • 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
  • Armed with a Wollensak reel-to-reel tape recorder, Segal also recorded shows at other city venues.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026

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