carriage return
Example Sentences
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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
She whacked the carriage return on the typewriter without looking up.
From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
