How to Use gramophone in a Sentence

gramophone

noun
  • Go to and scroll down at: https://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2021.
    Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
  • Some moms have even made their way to the stage when their child took home a gramophone!
    Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The room convulsed with the feverish music from the gramophone.
    Charlotte Allen, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The dance hall convulsed to the tunes on the gramophone and was full of bounding feet and seductive legs. . .
    Michael B. Mukasey, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2018
  • Just as the end of the gramophone didn't represent the end of music, the art will continue.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Later versions of the phonograph were called the gramophone.
    Kerry J. Byrne, Fox News, 12 Aug. 2022
  • A custom made vinyl record is cued to play through antique brass gramophone horns.
    Priya Ganapati, WIRED, 31 July 2009
  • The sibling singers didn't take home the gramophone trophy, but bigger things were just around the corner for Halle.
    Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Before the gramophone and before the radio — and for a long time after — music was sold by the sheet and not by the recording.
    John Podhoretz, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The stylistic flourish of Celie imagining herself and Shug on a gramophone turntable also feels out of step with the rest of the movie.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The gramophone, the TV cabinet, and the icebox have all fallen by the wayside over the past century.
    Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 27 Sep. 2022
  • But Denève brought a souvenir of a past even more distant than either Muti or Ormandy, in the form of a 78 record and gramophone.
    Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • His family played 78 rpm records on a gramophone that listeners had to wind up with a crank.
    John Pope, NOLA.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The microphone makes voices disappear into the ether, as the gramophone steals them out of nowhere.
    Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The gramophone was there; his backpack and his walking stick; his mat rolled up as though there would be another evening and morning.
    Paul Yoon, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Be sure to check out Maura Johnston’s crystal ball predictions of who will take home the blingy gramophones.
    Michael Brodeur, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Of course, everyone who attends the Grammy Awards wants to go home with a golden gramophone, but only a few are so lucky.
    Brande Victorian, Essence, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Adele walked away from the Grammy Awards Sunday night with all five of the golden gramophones for which she was nominated.
    Hilary Weaver, Vanities, 13 Feb. 2017
  • And atop the bucket list is winning a Grammy — for which they have been nominated six times, but have yet to take home the golden gramophone.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Mondrian was a fan of American jazz and would play it on the gramophone for visitors to his studio, said Küster.
    New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • In the early twentieth century, the long gallery was equipped with a more modern object: a gramophone.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Thought leaders in the William McKinley administration were saying the same thing about the gramophone.
    Justin Peters, Slate Magazine, 17 Jan. 2017
  • Zelda and Scott used to listen to their gramophone in this nook of the hotel, and a countless number of celebrities have partied here over the last century.
    Sarah Souli, Robb Report, 12 May 2023
  • When the first gramophone recordings of the blues emerged a century ago, its primary recording artists were Black female singers.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2020
  • The Jamaica native poses with his gramophone for best reggae album in 2004.
    Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Even without a definitive winner at the end of the night holding half a dozen gramophone statuettes, however, the 2023 Grammys felt like a sign of the times.
    Al Shipley, SPIN, 6 Feb. 2023
  • But Bon Iver wasn't the only artist from Wisconsin that might collect a golden gramophone on Jan. 31.
    Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The only accessory these guys need now is a tiny golden gramophone.
    Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Just down the street, O'Keefe's Waterfront Inn nods at the past with its relaxed atmosphere and vintage details such as a gramophone and old photos.
    Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Antonoff took home the prestigious producer of the year, non classical golden gramophone at the Sunday (Feb. 4) awards, along with album of the year for his help on Swift’s Midnights.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 7 Feb. 2024

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