VCR

Example Sentences

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I was a big skateboarder in my youth, and I told him I wanted a tape in the VCR like an old skate video.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

Here, Tuason cleverly lifts a conceit from “The Ring,” where a cursed videotape gave the viewer seven days to live after popping it into the VCR.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

The VCR was also the leading edge of a cluster of inexpensive consumer electronics in the 1980s that transformed domestic life: the Walkman, answering machines, videogames, video cameras and PCs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

He started in 1988, back when “machine learning” meant teaching your VCR to record “Cheers.”

From MarketWatch • Nov. 15, 2025

We'd gotten a video, and I put it in the VCR and went to get the rest of my dinner from the refrigerator.

From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson