RECORDER in a Sentence

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She had been descending steadily, to the day, and on the day, when Mr. Bounderby issued the weekly invitation recorded above.

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 Meanings and Examples of RECORDER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
recorder
 n.  a tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece
 n.  someone responsible for keeping records
Classic Sentence: (100 in 7 pages)
1  The deadly statistical recorder in the Gradgrind observatory knocked every second on the head as it was born, and buried it with his accustomed regularity.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
2  Nothing more is known of them until Mr. Drebber's body was, as recorded, discovered in an empty house in the Brixton Road, many miles from Euston.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
3  As to what occurred there, we cannot do better than quote the old hunter's own account, as duly recorded in Dr. Watson's Journal, to which we are already under such obligations.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
4  She had been descending steadily, to the day, and on the day, when Mr. Bounderby issued the weekly invitation recorded above.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
5  "I am fitter to meet death than thou art" answered the Disinherited Knight; for by this name the stranger had recorded himself in the books of the tourney.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  He then, in cant terms, with which his whole conversation was plentifully besprinkled, but which would be quite unintelligible if they were recorded here, demanded a glass of liquor.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  The observer's eye was arrested, not by his face as a picture, but by his face as a page; not by what it was, but by what it recorded.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
8  He then shortly recapitulated the facts which have already been recorded.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
9  For that, I should explain, was the date the little dials of my machine recorded.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
10  Yet, still, words like those I have recorded would burst uncontrollably from me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
11  I hardly know whether I shall have the power to detail it; yet the tale which I have recorded would be incomplete without this final and wonderful catastrophe.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
12  But it is not recorded that, in a single instance, her skill was called in to embroider the white veil which was to cover the pure blushes of a bride.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
13  I had known the softening influence of no other sorrows or experiences than those recorded in these leaves.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
14  It must be recorded of Amy that she deliberately prinked that night.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
15  Hitherto I have recorded in detail the events of my insignificant existence: to the first ten years of my life I have given almost as many chapters.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (207 in 14 pages)
16  Ted might benefit from hearing his own voice recorded and played back.
17  The robbery had been recorded on a concealed security camera.
18  The debate about the origins of the universe has been going on throughout recorded history.
19  His race has peopled this island through all recorded history.
20  He recorded an item for insertion in the programme.
21  Use recorded delivery for large cheques or money orders.
22  The message I recorded for the answering machine sounded terrible when I played it back.
23  Ensure all photographic material is properly packed and sent by recorded delivery.
24  The coroner recorded a verdict of death by natural causes.
25  He has recorded the narration for the production.
26  His speech has been recorded on tape.
27  The inspector dutifully recorded the date in a large red book.
28  The first recorded use of turquoise as a color name in English was in 1573.
29  A multifaceted composer, Roger Davidson has recorded original pieces that range from ragtime tangos to choral masses.
30  Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time.