How to Use CD-ROM in a Sentence

CD-ROM

noun
  • After CD-ROMs, games just looked and played differently.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That started with reviving the CD-ROM games that originated in the ’90s.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The technology company produced the first PlayStation in 1994, a gray console equipped with a CD-ROM drive.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • Cruising on Autopilot The ET Max includes a CD-ROM disc with the necessary software and drivers.
    — David English, PC Magazine, 4 Nov. 2026
  • The instrumental snippets are accessed — in old-fashioned CD-ROM hover-and-click style — by clicking on band posters or photographs pictured as being taped or otherwise affixed to a wall in a bedroom with a guitar, stacks of CDs and some dirty clothes.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026

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