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Which was why, at the very end, when Gordon tuned in on the wireless to a dance band and Robert was supposed to waltz Olwyn about the room, Stella had no patience with St Ives’s reaction to Geoffrey’s ten-second delay in putting on the gramophone record.—Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026 My Proustian trigger was a portable gramophone designed by Mario Bellini for the Italian company Minerva.—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Feb. 2026 The sibling singers didn't take home the gramophone, but bigger things were just around the corner for Halle, who starred as Princess Ariel in Disney's 2023 live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid.—Diana Pearl, PEOPLE, 1 Feb. 2026 The original phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison in 1877, but Emile Berliner perfected the disc-playing gramophone in the 1890s.—Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 30 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for gramophone