Sentence examples for record instead of from inspiring English sources

This year's list begins with inventor Emile Berliner, a pioneer of recorded sound, reciting the Lord's Prayer and "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star". A year earlier he had won his patent for a gramophone that played a flat-disc record instead of the wax cylinders that held the first sound recordings.

Londonderry responded hopelessly badly in Parliament, querulously defending his own record instead of promising more aircraft.

Now a president with a record instead of a newcomer, Mr. Obama has seen his favorability among Americans tarnish a bit.

Mr. Mitchell, 48, a criminal defense lawyer and graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, said he preferred to talk about his record instead of Mr. Seabrook's.

But whenever he came in to record, instead of getting any money for the recording, they would deduct his fee from what he owed them.

When it finally appeared, The Menace was an interesting but slim piece of work that sounded like it had taken five days to record instead of five years.

Seven of the remaining recordings were of such a bad quality that further analysis was impossible and in five of the recordings, an image was recorded instead of a loop.

Nowadays your Hampstead liberal is listening to rock records instead of Dave Brubeck.

And you can add a little thumbnail picture to represent each recording, instead of all-text listings.

Frederick Lum Ferris, Princeton '41, handed in his thesis on "Geology of N. J". on then 12-inch records instead of writing it out on a typewriter.

There is nothing against the rules in choosing to run marathons in search of records instead of racing against stringent competition.