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
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
From three-year-olds he got reactions such as "I like my horsy record �I put it on the victrola . . . take my bicycle and ride through the dining room, galloping, galloping ..."
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, for about an hour we lounged on Constantin's balcony in two separate slingback chairs with the victrola playing and the balalaika records stacked between us.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
