How to Use tape deck in a Sentence
tape deck
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Better yet, there’s no screen jutting up from the dash, and there’s even room for vents above the stereo (which features a tape deck).
—Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 29 Apr. 2026
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International phone calls were too expensive, so his parents bought them a cheap tape deck.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2025
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That might seem like a colossal success to you or me, except the budget was somehow $55 million, for a movie about an album made on a $400 tape deck.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2025
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In experiments done decades ago, scientists were able to show that if the sound of running water was played from a tape deck, beavers would try desperately to accumulate wood around the sound.
—Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
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That’s very apparent in watching Davis at work; heavily used telephone to his left, papers needing immediate action in front of him, a stack of demo tapes and songs to the right and turntable or tape deck in constant use.
—Chet Flippo, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2026
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Cooper gives far more attention to the delivery of the multitrack tape deck by an associate named Mikey (Paul Walter Hauser) than to Bruce’s efforts to record his songs with it.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
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If the item still works but is obsolete (like a DVD player or VHS tape deck), try posting it in a local Buy Nothing or Freecycling group.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Feb. 2026
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Throughout the entire performance, the band explored visual enjoyment as well, using open-reel tape decks, CRT display drums, and electric fan harps, delivering a large-scale show that shook the entire venue, relentlessly building the crowd’s excitement.
—Billboard Japan, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2025
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