victrola

Example Sentences

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A victrola was playing somewhere, and from the bedroom came voices in a sort of off-key barbershop quartet.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 3, 2016

She's looking for an old victrola she can use to accessorize her Brooklyn apartment.

From Time • Feb. 26, 2010

I was at an institution of learning some months ago where the boys turned on the victrola to dress by.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tunes are marvelous but the way Army bands have played them in the past has made them sound like an old-fashioned victrola which needed to be wound up.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mom put a record on the victrola, and she and Captain John Black had a dance.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury