How to Use record in a Sentence

record

1 of 3 verb
  • The band spent all night recording.
  • The show is recorded in front of a live audience.
  • Please record the television program for me.
  • He recorded the birthday party with his new video camera.
  • Be sure to record all your business expenditures.
  • A seismograph is a device that measures and records the intensity of earthquakes.
  • He just recorded his latest album.
  • There are similar events all throughout recorded history.
  • The thermometer recorded 40 degrees below zero.
  • The wettest day of the week came on Monday with 0.49 inches of rain recorded.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The dashcam video records a view of Card's driveway through the windshield.
    Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Bing Crosby recorded one of the most famous renditions of the song in the late 1940s.
    Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Not long after, someone asked Pearl to record a video for him.
    Steve Hartman, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • About a dozen bystanders gathered to watch, some taking out phones to record it.
    Colleen Slevin The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 6 Feb. 2024
  • So the Australian took off for six months, moved to London and got a job at a recording studio.
    Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The interviews will not be live-streamed, but will be recorded, with a link on the Huntsville City Schools website.
    Scott Turner | , al, 7 June 2023
  • Chase Matthew’s producer put a version of his voice on a song to convince him to record it.
    Tom Roland, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The impulse of late for recording artist biopics is to make a jukebox musical of all their hits.
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2023
  • In 2021, Egypt — who is a skilled piano player — recorded his first song with Keys.
    Ellie Beeck, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Those values are quite close to record values for warm overnight readings.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Shares of Apple edged higher Thursday as the stock recorded its first five-day winning streak of the year.
    WSJ, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The Man recorded its first album with Atlantic over a decade prior.
    Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 22 June 2023
  • The last time Earth recorded a colder-than-average year was in 1976.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The loan became delinquent in October 2023, the county records show.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • At least four Israeli airstrikes have been recorded near the Rafah border crossing since the war began.
    Emma Ogao, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Sophomore Cruz Lucius recorded his 10th goal of the season.
    Journal Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Starting to record new X record in January, our second in three years.
    Liza Lentini, SPIN, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Several places around the globe have recorded their early versions of a sweet, frozen dessert.
    USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
  • The strongest earthquake ever recorded happened in Chile in 1960.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • After all, the audience records that are being broken now were set in the nineteen-eighties and nineties, when the games were on network television, before ESPN bought the rights and buried them.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
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record

2 of 3 adjective
  • Even the Southwest may see an end to the record heat streaks.
    Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 26 July 2023
  • And about one in five of them are going abroad, a record share in the data going back to the 1970s.
    Augusta Saraiva, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2023
  • And there is a good reason for the savings rate to be low: household wealth is near record highs.
    Rachel Lin, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • With his win Sunday, Djokovic regained the world’s top ranking for a record 388th week.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 11 June 2023
  • That would beat a record passenger number set on June 30 of this year.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Despite record rain and snow in much of the West, the Colorado River has not recovered.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The White House seized on comments from Tuberville dismissing the record heat wave.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Across the country, book banning efforts are at record highs.
    Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2023
  • The soaking followed a summer marked by record heat and wildfires.
    Colbi Edmonds, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The news comes about a month after Biles won a record eighth U.S. Gymnastics title.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Prices reached record highs in 2022 after the avian flu reduced the number of available egg-laying hens.
    Alice Barlow, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2023
  • For those looking for an apartment in New York City, expect more record high rents ahead.
    Anna Bahney, CNN, 8 June 2023
  • Meanwhile, home prices remain near their record highs of the pandemic.
    Eli Tan, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The surge in union interest follows the UAW's strike against the Big 3 automakers last fall, which led to record contracts.
    Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Local dining:Taste of Cincinnati to host a record 77 vendors this year.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 10 May 2023
  • Last year, a record 425 people died, with more than half of those deaths occurring in July.
    Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 26 May 2023
  • Pumping a record 105 billion cubic feet per day (most of it from shale fracking), the U.S. has oodles of gas.
    Christopher Helman, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Water in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic has been record warm, especially for this early in the year.
    Jennifer Gray, CNN, 17 July 2023
  • International anglers make pilgrimages to the banks of the Rio Grande in the hope of hooking its record brown trout.
    Nora Walsh, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2023
  • In May, production rose 10% compared to the previous year to reach a record 27 terawatt hours.
    William Mathis, Fortune, 3 June 2023
  • This year, a record number of ballots -- more than 1.4 million -- were cast in the competition.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • With credit card debt at record highs, fewer consumers can pay their balances in full each month.
    Joe Camberato, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Prices are off their highs, but the record low cattle numbers are still impacting the industry.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The state's civilian labor force grew by 803 in October, and remains at a record high level, the report said.
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The news follows last month’s announcement that book-banning attempts have reached record highs.
    Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Dallas-Fort Worth is starting to heat up with record hot days hitting the region in mid February.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Feb. 2024
  • In 2020, a record year for hurricanes and the last year of Garner’s study, six storms rapidly intensified that much.
    TIME, 19 Oct. 2023
  • In late January, the temperature surged to a record 80 degrees, and February saw highs in the 60s on five days.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
  • This follows a record low minimum extent set at the end of the Antarctic summer back in February of this year.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
  • This has helped drive the globe to multiple record highs in 2023, including warmest summer.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2023
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record

3 of 3 noun
  • The nine goals tied the record for the most in a Cup Final.
    Mark Anderson, ajc, 14 June 2023
  • The college’s last records of the art date back to around 1738.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
  • And to be clear, the genius of this record was all RZA and Dirty.
    Dante Ross, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • None of those teams has a record as good as the Orioles’ mark of 63-40.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2023
  • About 20 percent of the records at UNC have been flagged so far.
    Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The Rangers lost 35 games by one run, setting a club record.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 24 June 2023
  • For decades, he’s aimed to break the 30-second record for time aloft of a paper plane.
    Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The 6-foot-8 right-hander is the best starting pitcher for the third best team in the AL based on win-loss record.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 12 June 2023
  • Proulx, 24, finished with eight saves on the night, tying the record for goalies in their NWSL debuts.
    Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Our offices are covered in their prints and our shelves lined with their records.
    Jaden Thompson, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The rare card may even break the current record for collectible cards sold at auction.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
  • And the release date for the record is going to be in November or something like that.
    Gen Handley, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Every city has a cool record shop these days; Culture Shock is mine.
    Medea Giordano, WIRED, 25 Nov. 2023
  • What has that been like for you and how involved was your partner in making this record?
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The record was confirmed nearly a month after the GWR reviewed footage from the cookathon, which lasted four days.
    Stephanie Busari, CNN, 13 June 2023
  • Check out the video below, and scroll down for the record’s tracklist and Vile’s upcoming schedule of tour dates.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Richardson’s record time beat three of the fastest sprinters in history.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The Angels begin a three-game series Monday in Atlanta against the Braves, who have the best record in the majors at 67-36.
    Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
  • That marked the stock's longest winning streak on record, based on data going back to June 2010.
    Candice Choi, WSJ, 12 June 2023
  • According to jail records, Buckley was bonded out on the same day.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 1 Nov. 2023
  • In an interview with Rolling Stone, the singer explained that the record is inspired by the sounds of the Black diaspora of then and now.
    Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 31 May 2023
  • The most common device used in BCI research, the Utah array, records from 100 electrodes.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Home prices rose in August to a record high as a shortage of homes for sale kept the market competitive.
    Nicole Friedman, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Now the expectations have been heightened for his new record.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Online court records did not appear to show an attorney for the man, who was charged Tuesday evening.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 13 June 2023
  • Part of her intention was to correct the record on who the first real male cheerleaders were at a Super Bowl.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Actually, Zac just showed us his new Half Noise record.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The celebration broke a record for the largest display of earthen oil lamps — 2.2 million — lit in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
    Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Within days, Florida would see a record surge in cases.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • Still, seconds later, one of the deputies — later identified as Vega in county records — fired a shot into Cervantes’ side.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024

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