Example Sentences

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Hence his play�against which the only criticism is that it is too worthy�makes use of gramophonic bugle calls, clock ticks in the darkness to denote passage of time, mysterious snatches of offstage dialog.

From Time Magazine Archive

Behind this gramophonic frenzy was a worthy idea: to collect old, unwanted records, sell them for scrap, and with the proceeds buy new records at cost for U.S. soldiers and sailors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Halifax gives me an impression of almost cinematographic and gramophonic exactness in his portraiture.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 by Various

I awoke to find the sun pouring into the room, and the strains of "Rule, Britannia" filling the house with gramophonic sound.

From Norway by Jungman, Beatrix

My relations with her are purely telephonic, gramophonic, photophonic, and, may I add, platonic.

From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard