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Example sentences for "dictaphone"

Lexicographically close words:
dict; dicta; dictae; dictagraph; dictam; dictarum; dictas; dictate; dictated; dictates
  1. In October a spring-driven dictaphone was taken into the air and a record of speech made in the noise of the motor.

  2. A study of this dictaphone record convinced the aviation officers that the idea of the radio telephone for airplanes was entirely practicable.

  3. As "The Ballad of the Tempest" would have to issue from the dictaphone to the stenographer) Begin each line with a capital.

  4. The Dictaphone Bard [And here is a suggestion: Did you ever try dictating your stories or articles to the dictaphone for the first draft?

  5. Notice that in the dictaphone the air waves of your voice are all concentrated into a small space as they go down the tube.

  6. What makes a dictaphone or a phonograph repeat your words?

  7. When you talk into a dictaphone horn, the vibrating air causes the needle at the small end of the horn to vibrate so that it traces a wavy line in the soft wax of the cylinder as the cylinder turns.

  8. His hand, which had wasted to mere skin and bone these past few months, groped through the darkness, slid over the polished coolness of the dictaphone hood, and snapped the switch.

  9. The dictaphone couldn't record the grimace that jerked his lips.

  10. His fingers ached their grip into the dictaphone tube.

  11. If the Lassans had set a dictaphone or some similar device to spy on them there was no sign of it in the conversation which Sherman's interrogator held with him during the next period.

  12. They haven't put me next to you for the fun of it, and they may have a dictaphone stuck around somewhere.

  13. Through a dictaphone and the telegraphy of the pipe, instructions had been sent to and from their headquarters.

  14. It was too late to use the dictaphone again, but he knew he must change his instructions and tell them not to waste the bomb in the library.

  15. There was a dictaphone hidden beneath the bed with which he had probably communicated with those outside the house for days.

  16. But to talk into the metallic receiver of a mechanical dictaphone has an almost ridiculous air.

  17. He replaced the receiver and picked up the mouthpiece of the dictaphone again, paying no further attention to me.

  18. Mr Le ffaçasé removed the tube of the dictaphone from his lips as I entered.

  19. Then the dictaphone operator puts the cylinders on her machine, places light tubes in her ears, and takes down the dictation on her typewriter as she hears it.

  20. From what invention did the dictaphone come?

  21. The dictaphone is really a development of Edison's phonograph.

  22. He has the necessary knowledge to place a dictaphone or tap a telephone wire.

  23. He picked up the dictaphone every few minutes, but for a long time heard nothing.

  24. I wonder," said Walker, "if they have, found the dictaphone as yet.

  25. Also, he, another man named Bronson, and I have already made arrangements for placing that dictaphone at the Germans' meeting-place.

  26. I am holding this about the same distance from Mr. Davis, and I am asking him if he sees any colored items on the back of this Dictaphone card that I am holding up [indicating]?

  27. I am going to ask you, Captain Arnett, if what I am showing you is the dictaphone belt case with the red arrow on it that you identified earlier in the testimony [indicating]?

  28. And I am holding this dictaphone package, about 10 feet away from you, aren't I [indicating]?

  29. This thing that I am holding up is a red arrow which appears on the back of a Dictaphone belt holder, and this arrow, the stem part of the arrow is not more than a quarter of an inch long.

  30. The other window was never opened, sir, because of the dictaphone as stands in front of it.

  31. A dictaphone in a case was in a corner, but beside it was a little table on which were set out some rare bits of old Chelsea.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dictaphone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.