How to Use recorder in a Sentence

recorder

noun
  • To get back to the recorder, just tap on the island icon.
    Joanna Stern, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Video: Google All phones come with a voice recorder app.
    Simon Hill, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The humans were asked to turn on the recorders and leave for 90 minutes.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The judge instructed the court clerk to shut off the recorder for 52 seconds.
    Shelley Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Now the button can be used to launch apps like the camera or recorder.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Varvel was the chief deputy when Fontes served as county recorder.
    Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The mobster’s ominous words were captured by the FBI’s recorder.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • When the Michigan coach met with reporters Thursday, the recorders braced for fire breath.
    Jimmy Watkins, cleveland, 29 July 2023
  • And for so many of those hours, the digital recorder in my phone was running.
    Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Why did Hollingsworth turn off his body-camera video recorder?
    Jim Mustian, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Get an audience and then record the workshop with an MP3 recorder or on Zoom.
    Henry Devries, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • But neither plane was equipped with a flight-data recorder.
    Dallas News, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Neither aircraft was equipped with an in-flight black box recorder.
    CBS News, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Alexander is not seen on the video because it is shot from the recorder's perspective.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2022
  • So, Marcel took a $100 audio recorder, and went searching for the missing sound to record.
    Charles Miller, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Göransson went home, ordered a set of recorders of various sizes and a flute, and got to work.
    David Betancourt, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • Toward the end of her life, Ms. Piñon began to dictate her work into a recorder.
    Ana Ionova, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Over the course of three hours on a Friday evening in November, the face of Dior dropped a grand total of 154 F-bombs, and that’s just when the recorder was on.
    Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Officers have the digital video recorder but have not been able to access the files on it.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Lizzo is good as hell at playing the recorder — and plays it everywhere.
    Stephanie Webber, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
  • Pete Duncan, the county’s clerk and recorder, said the nonprofit has no say in how the county runs the 2024 election.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
  • The jet’s cockpit voice and data recorders were sent to the NTSB headquarters for analysis.
    Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Smith also stole a video cassette recorder from the Sennett’s home and kept it in his Lauderdale County house.
    Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 30 Sep. 2022
  • My column on over-the-air digital video recorders brought a lot of follow-up questions.
    Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Other recordings appear to capture the recorder being removed from the dorm room and then put back.
    Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Lizzo, meanwhile, has played the recorder for years, showing off her chops in a Twitter video in July.
    Stephanie Webber, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
  • But what of the young women summoned by König’s recorder, who screech like pod people right out of Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
  • That’s true of so few professional athletes, who either don’t want to or don’t care enough to stand in front of the cameras and recorders when the chips are down.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 3 Feb. 2024
  • To find ballot drop boxes in your area, check your county recorder's website.
    Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Or use it as a stand-alone recorder and record to its 8 gigabytes of internal storage.
    Wired, 11 July 2022

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