carriage return

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The typewriter’s punchy carriage return — and its associated pinging sound — has a way of punctuating the end of barreling motifs in the flute writing.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2021

It may sound nostalgic to cite those endangered features of moviegoing as two I’d miss—the cinematic equivalent of eulogizing the smell of warm newsprint or the crisp “ding” of the carriage return on a typewriter.

From Slate • Jan. 1, 2019

Newly landed at a quiet provincial newspaper, he strikes a match by holding it against the cylinder of a typewriter and pressing the carriage return.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 9, 2016

Christopher Middleton, we are told, possesses “the ability to speak in perfectly constructed paragraphs, with an audible carriage return in the voice.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2015

And then came the familiar rattle of the typewriter keys being struck, the thwack of the carriage return being hit.

From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo