victrola

Example Sentences

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A victrola was playing somewhere, and from the bedroom came voices in a sort of off-key barbershop quartet.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 3, 2016

She's looking for an old victrola she can use to accessorize her Brooklyn apartment.

From Time • Feb. 26, 2010

I was at an institution of learning some months ago where the boys turned on the victrola to dress by.

From Time Magazine Archive

From three-year-olds he got reactions such as "I like my horsy record �I put it on the victrola . . . take my bicycle and ride through the dining room, galloping, galloping ..."

From Time Magazine Archive

Mom put a record on the victrola, and she and Captain John Black had a dance.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury