TAPE in a Sentence

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52 example sentences for TAPE, such as:

1. His speech has been recorded on tape.
2. Police seized various books and tapes.
3. There is so much red tape in these matters.
4. The program was recorded on a tape recorder.
5. I taped the base of the feather onto the velvet.

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 Meanings and Examples of TAPE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tape
 n.  a long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening
 v.  use a thin strip of material to attach or join things
Classic Sentence:
1  As he spoke, he whipped a tape measure and a large round magnifying glass from his pocket.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  This done, he appeared to be satisfied, for he replaced his tape and his glass in his pocket.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  "Thirty-five only," her father-in-law said, as if he had whipped a tape measure from his pocket and measured it exactly.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
4  The undertaker offered no reply to this raving; but producing a tape from his pocket, knelt down for a moment by the side of the body.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  He had picked from a drawer a little tarnished cylinder, and, undoing the tape, he handed me a short note scrawled upon a half-sheet of slate-grey paper.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
6  I could see that it was already a third full of bundles of paper tied up with red tape into separate packages.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
7  There is so much red tape in these matters.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
8  She untied the waist tape and slipped it down over her feet, crushing the soft linen folds between her hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  Then she passed the tape measure about her waist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
10  A bit of tape attached to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
11  If the tape was pulled, a bell rang, and one heard a voice very near at hand, which made one start.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
12  Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
13  It was as much as to say: I have you properly taped, my lad.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
14  All these traveling effects of Prince Andrew's were in very good order: new, clean, and in cloth covers carefully tied with tapes.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
15  I'll lie down at once, said Natasha, and began hurriedly undressing, tugging at the tapes of her petticoat.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXI
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
16  The course comprises a class book, a practice book and an audio tape.
17  The program was recorded on a tape recorder.
18  The Minister cut the tape to open a new section of the motorway.
19  It would be uneconomical to send a brand new tape.
20  His speech has been recorded on tape.
21  He was not satisfied with the tape recorder,so he took it back to the store.
22  Before you splice two strips of tape together, be sure to line them up evenly.
23  The former president tried to destroy an audio tape that could be used to to incriminate him.
24  The manual that came with my VCR was no masterpiece of expository prose: its explanations were so garbled that I couldn't even figure out how to rewind a tape.
25  I cut out his obituary from the local paper, and wrapped it in clear tape to preserve it.
26  The carpenter should have used his tape measure the room before any other jobs.
27  Her rendition of the anthem was critically praised, but was scrutinized less than a day later when a representative from the U.S. Marine Band said Beyonce was lip-syncing and the band's performance was taped.
28  I taped the base of the feather onto the velvet.
29  Police seized various books and tapes.
30  The bookshop has decided to branch out into selling various records and tapes.