Sentence examples for phonograph needle from inspiring English sources

Another time, Spurrier said that Wuerffel became stuck like an old phonograph needle.

She added, "It's like the tip of the phonograph needle moving along the record.

One of Steely Dan's three backup singers, Carolyn Leonhardt, symbolically lowered a phonograph needle onto an LP.

Instead, he's spending his time in huddles with politicians and bureaucrats, where the conversation tends, like a stuck phonograph needle, to rotate around a single topic: anthrax.

When the phonograph needle gets stuck, the soprano's voice keeps repeating the same word on the same quaver, which suddenly assumes a grotesquely independent life.

In the 1930's, he placed a phonograph needle on the bridge of his guitar and connected it to a telephone, from which he could increase the volume.

A hard alloy of osmium and iridium has been used for tips of fountain pens and phonograph needles, and osmium tetroxide is used in certain organic syntheses.

They are essential for the manufacture of recording heads, which resemble phonograph needles and are used in today's hard disk drives.

Out front, the faded, peeling signs advertise the latest merchandise — VCRs, answering machines, phonograph needles and cordless telephones; inside, the glass cabinets display miscellaneous sale items that get as modern as the Palm Pilot.

The High Fidelity types were still concerned with high fidelity, of course; only now, instead of exchanging angry letters about phonograph needles in the back pages of Playboy, they flamed one another over the relative merits of various MP3 byte rates in hundred-page threads on the Oink forums.

While change is afoot – the younger Grado, Jonathan, finally nabbed the @grado handle on Twitter – the company is staying true to its roots and still makes thousands of phonograph needles (and many more pairs of headphones) yearly.