videotape
Example Sentences
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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
Ampex invented the first videotape recorder for professional use in 1956, a $50,000 machine that CBS used to tape and broadcast reruns.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
It’s funny how just the grainy, washed-out look of videotape can conjure so much melancholy.
From Salon • Oct. 12, 2025
Here, we’re in a world of phone booths, pagers and bulky computers no one knows how to work, of Walkmans and videotape, which both simplifies and complicates the action.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2024
I turned on the Nutcracker videotape, and we danced for hours in the family room.
From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
