How to Use compact disc in a Sentence

compact disc

noun

• The sound of the vinyl trumps the sound of a compact disc or cassette any day.
  — Gabrielle Bunton, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2021
• Think about what iPods did to compact discs, and what the iPhone did to the BlackBerry.
  — Samantha Masunaga, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2017
• One of the few titles to be getting a compact disc as well as vinyl edition for the day.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
• This year, for the first time since…I was in college…vinyl may outsell compact discs.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2019
• At times, record players, records, cassettes and compact discs were sold.
  — Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 16 Dec. 2019
• Sony went on to develop the compact disc along with Philips PHG , and that product once again changed the face of the music business.
  — Bobby Owsinski, Forbes, 30 May 2021
• The store has been selling and collecting music long enough to see vinyl eclipsed by the compact disc, and then reborn.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 3 Dec. 2019
• The rise in popularity of the compact disc made the 1990s one of the most profitable decades for recorded music.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 29 Apr. 2022
• The compact disc, whose sales have been declining for years, looks to be finally ditched by Best Buy.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2018
• First 50 to arrive get compact disc of King square dance album and instruction book.
  — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• Taylor said in the motion that prosecutors provided copies of the video on both a flash drive and a compact disc.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 9 May 2023
• This vinyl followup promises to take advantage of the same restorative care that made the compact disc of a few years back such an instant collectible.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Nov. 2022
• Back in the 1980s, Peter Giles knew that the fledgling music format, the compact disc, came with some compromises.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
• Which prompts the question: As with 78 rpm records and 8-track tapes before them, does the news further the compact disc's march toward redundancy?
  — Randall Roberts, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• Best Buy will pull compact discs from their stores by July 1, according to Billboard.
  — William Thornton, AL.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• The most striking fact about latter-day discussions about sound quality and streaming may be just how far ahead of its time the compact disc was.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021
• The slaying happened in the course of the theft of two shotguns, two rifle, one sword, 29 compact discs and an undetermined amount of cash, according to court records.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 27 Feb. 2020
• But back in the compact disc era, that disappointment usually cost about $13.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 19 Aug. 2022
• When young people stopped buying compact discs, Tower was caught with heavy debts and slumped into liquidation at the end of 2006.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• Police told Hartley that the envelope contained an unsigned card along with a compact disc.
  — Gordon Rago, baltimoresun.com, 6 July 2018
• Dawson, while walking the aisles, also gave them a little souvenir, in the form of guitar picks and compact discs, to commemorate their flight.
  — Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2017
• The business of selling vinyl albums, in the midst of an unexpected , could have been facing its biggest existential threat since the rise of the compact disc.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2020
• But out of the gate, the Spice Girls’ arsenal included a weapon even more powerful than warehouses full of gleaming compact discs.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2019
• Prizes are available to patrons for having read or listened to a qualifying number of books or compact discs.
  — Megann Horstead, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2018
• Whereas most camp sets nest together in a large cylindrical shape, this set includes a large pot, kettle and pan that nest inside of each other to form a slim, compact disc.
  — Sara Tane, goodhousekeeping.com, 16 May 2023
• Data was sent out to scientists in boxes and boxes of compact discs, and Herrick recalled that getting a single image to load on a screen could take a good 10 seconds.
  — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023
• Since the early 2000s, Pearl Jam has released official bootlegs of nearly all of the band’s concerts, either on compact disc or digital download.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2021
• Much like their music industry debut, which, Mr. Black noted, will be released as a double compact disc.
  — New York Times, 22 Sep. 2021
• Other formats besides LPs are included in the Luminate study, of course, and for once, almost nothing was down from the previous year — not even compact discs.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 July 2023
• The cassette player's performance, with tape recorded on a good deck from records or compact discs, absolutely caresses the ears.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 24 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024