How to Use reel-to-reel in a Sentence

reel-to-reel

adjective
Definition of reel-to-reelnext
  • Seven places to listen to the reel-to-reel tapes and 14 machines running.
    — Mary Zahn and Bill Janz, Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Elyea said, pointing to an old-fashioned reel-to-reel tape player.
    — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • Unlike a record player—or the reel-to-reel tape player—the boom box was both portable and commensurate with the scale and the volume of the city.
    — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Teenager John Bloomfield, a boarder at Stowe in Buckinghamshire, tested out his new reel-to-reel tape recorder at the show.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Doc Watson might be my earliest memory, hearing him on my dad’s big reel-to-reel tape recorder.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Apr. 2023
  • One place his vision is most evident is in his reel-to-reel tape box collages, rarely displayed publicly until now.
    — Melena Ryzik, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • To us denizens of the digital age, the state-of-the-art eavesdropping technologies in these movies, with their dials and levers and reel-to-reel tapes, look quaint bordering on otherworldly.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The visual exceptions are the clichéd, recurring establishing shots of an old-fashioned reel-to-reel tape recorder, next to a martini glass.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
  • Each of these capsules sported a bed, a fold-out desk and a reel-to-reel tape player, and they were marketed toward businessmen who regularly overnighted in Tokyo.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2023
  • Keith Owens, a preservation lead, operates a reel-to-reel microfilm scanner to digitize records.
    — Megan Greenwell, WIRED, 27 June 2023
  • His music was never formally recorded in a studio, but reel-to-reel tapes capturing rehearsal sessions with his group Los Primos were later discovered in an attic, leading to the Third Man compilation.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2023

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