kinematograph
Britishnoun
Other Word Forms
- kinematographer noun
- kinematographic adjective
- kinematography noun
Example Sentences
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The German Navy League, an aggressive body which had gathered around it more than a million members previous to the war, stirred up anti-British feeling by means of leaflets, newspaper articles, kinematograph exhibitions, and sermons.
From The Land of Deepening Shadow Germany-at-War by Curtin, D. Thomas
Why, it was only a faked-up thing, the taking of a kinematograph picture for the Alhambra.
From Cleek, the Master Detective by Hanshew, Thomas W.
My kinematograph was out of order, but fortunately I succeeded in replacing it with a secondhand Pathé.
From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Lumholtz, Carl
An American kinematograph operator, Mr. Edwards, of Mr. Hearst's papers, was desirous of taking a film of these women navvies—heavy, sad creatures they are.
From The Land of Deepening Shadow Germany-at-War by Curtin, D. Thomas
Next door to that there is a kinematograph wagon, with benches to seat about one hundred and fifty persons.
From The Crisis in Russia by Ransome, Arthur
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