What is "phonograph needle"

Usage examples of "phonograph needle".

He was reminded of a phonograph needle caught in the same groove, or a mechanical toy turned on to a new track by a little push.

Breathing shallowly, doing her level best to keep her hand steady, she moved the phonograph needle into place.

As they talked she could look out her window and see the lightning stab down at the water beyond the breakwater, and each time it happened there would be a little scratching noise on the wire, like a phonograph needle digging a record.

The phonograph needle was now scratching its slow way across the void to the second.

That thought was playing over and over in my mind, like a phonograph needle stuck in a single flawed groove.

I admit you're not an animated phonograph needle like Rubin but you haven't said a word all dinner, damn it.

At this point, instead of turning back to find an alternate route, he began to move in circles, squeaking like a phonograph needle scratched across the grooves.

He slurred some of his words, and every once in a while he repeated himself, stressing a point so often that Tony had to gently nudge him on, as if bumping a phonograph needle out of a bad groove.