carriage return

Example Sentences

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Williams poem to make the case that a stanza without the intentional carriage returns is merely a paragraph.

From New York Times

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

The carriage return signals the end of a line.

From Seattle Times

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

From Literature

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