How to Use vinyl in a Sentence

vinyl

noun
  • To that end, the book is sized like a vinyl LP box set.
    — Rachel Kramer Bussel, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Last year, vinyl sales outpaced CD sales for the first time since the 1980s.
    — Rachel Trent, CNN, 17 July 2021
  • By 2019, all three were available on vinyl for the first time.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 July 2019
  • Discogs is the best source for finding rare, out-of-print vinyl.
    — Ryan Smith, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2021
  • The guest bedroom has an epoxy floor with some of Biton's vinyl records.
    — Mark Dunphy, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Headlights are clad in gray vinyl and fog lights are set low on the bumper.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 21 Dec. 2019
  • The records cost $25 each (not bad for a unique vinyl record) plus shipping.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 10 Apr. 2020
  • So far, vinyl sales are up 4% over this same point last year.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 30 May 2022
  • How broad and narrow is the market for CD and vinyl box sets?
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2022
  • As the camera zoomed in on Berry's boot, the sound of a vinyl record scratching could be heard.
    — Ashley Hume, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2023
  • The title is slang for a vinyl record, as well as the name of a small record-store chain of that era.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Steve Baltin: What made this the right time to release the vinyl from Changeland?
    — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 12 May 2021
  • This year, vinyl sales have outpaced CD sales in the United States for the first time since the 1980s.
    — Jazmin Goodwin, CNN, 13 Sep. 2020
  • As local vinyl-heads will tell you it’s one of the best record stores in the Southeast.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The clear vinyl domes seat up to 10 people and can withstand rain and snow.
    — Jeff Bollier, Star Tribune, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The album sold a ton, and the proof is all over the vinyl collecting site Discogs.
    — Randall Robertsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2019
  • One of the guests, a helpless vinyl devotee, pulled the Beatles’ 45 from the sleeve.
    — Tom Junod, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The satin-black vinyl side and hood stripes can be had trimmed in either red or white.
    — Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 16 June 2020
  • The walls are filled with vintage cameras and there are stacks of vinyl records.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2020
  • By the 1970s, billions of vinyl records were sold every year.
    — Dan Kopf, Quartz, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Michael collects some of his favorite artists on the old 33 1/3 rpm vinyl records.
    — cleveland, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Think about the hard drive in a game console, spinning like a 5400-rpm vinyl record.
    — Wired, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Anything from karaoke, and trivia, to emo and vinyl nights.
    — Chevaz Clarke, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2020
  • There are also a couple of thousand vinyl records for sale in the store.
    — Bob Bong, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The flooring is going to be a new type of vinyl in every unit.
    — Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 3 Sep. 2020
  • In April, vinyl albums saw their third-largest sales week since 1991.
    — Dan Kopf, Quartzy, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Over the aux or on vinyl, here are the best Father's Day songs to jam to with the father figure in your life.
    — Mia Uzzell, Glamour, 19 June 2022
  • The space is cozy, with vinyl-record sleeves covering the wood walls and ceiling.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Long wrote the liner notes for the record, while the sleeve inserts to the vinyl feature photographs of Whitten and Berry.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2023
  • But for young people, who are embracing typewriters and vinyl, the glitches are part of the charm.
    — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023

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