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phonograph records

n. (plural of phonograph record English)

Usage examples of "phonograph records".

Marage and others have been able to distinguish vocal sounds by the naked eye on phonograph records.

Your godawful place is full of phonograph records, champagne, and old newspapers.

Watch this junk, Henry, take this junk, here, what a fool I am she says, and she gave me some old phonograph records and some newspapers, special, she said, and I thanked her and thought what the hell and she went down the hall crying for herself being a fool and I just put the old newspapers by and the records and didn't think a long while till after Fannie was tributed and sung after and gone, and then this morning I ran my hand over those fool papers and thought, what is this?

There is a pause while the technicians at each end flip over their phonograph records.

Then in college--I had a roommate from Memphis, and he was playing some old phonograph records one afternoon, some Bessie Smiths, some Tea Gardens, and one of the numbers nearly knocked me out.

Up to the present it has been practicable to take phonograph records only by the direct action of the human voice upon the diaphragm of the instrument.

One far wall in shadow was all books and phonograph records, floor to ceiling, except for the space taken by a formidable hi-fi.

He had the look of a poverty-stricken college boy, one who waited on tables and spent his money for phonograph records instead of food.

It came with two cardboard cartons of phonograph records, and a smaller cardboard carton that held the glasses and bottles--genuine Bohemian crystal--for the concealed bar.

Cases and cases, and there was Stella up there dancing to her phonograph records.

With this in mind, the Office of Censorship ruled that telephone or telegraph requests for phonograph records were not to be honored, and that mail requests must be held for an irregular, unspecified time before playing.

Among the very large collection of phonograph records which the Library maintained were perhaps a hundred which Mr Kelso called his Horrible Examples.

We got one of those damned phonograph records, and it told us we would be turned in.

He existed, like other people, in a world of public parks, bistros, commercial cities and he wanted to persuade himself that he was living somewhere else, behind the canvas of paintings, with the doges of Tintoretto, with Gozzoli's Florentines, behind the pages of books, with Fabrizio del Dongo and Julien Sorel, behind the phonograph records, with the long dry laments of jazz.

The atmosphere had an innocent denseness, as if it had just been created, and the beautiful mulatto girls who waited hopelessly among the blood-red petals and the outmoded phonograph records knew ways of love that man had left behind forgotten in the earthly paradise.