How to Use cathode-ray tube in a Sentence

cathode-ray tube

noun

• Television cathode-ray tubes scanned a beam across the surface of a screen, row after row.
  — Matt Sarnoff, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2020
• Flat screen televisions didn’t enter the market until 1997, so the big, heavy cathode-ray tube set was the centerpiece of every living room.
  — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2026
• After Wally springs her from the Shaw's clutches, the group manages to lure the couple and some of their lackeys into the makeshift particle accelerator trap that former engineer Sam built out of old cathode-ray tube TVs.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 21 May 2026
• When Amir is arrested on charges of attempting to create social unrest, Fatima embarks on a perilous journey with an old cathode-ray tube television and DVD player loaded onto a yak, determined to screen the film in remote villages.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025
• Streaming already accounts for 11% of the Sunday Night Football audience, and as the digital behemoths grow ever more powerful, the transition from the cathode-ray tube to the server farm is as inevitable as death and yet another miserable season for the Cleveland Browns.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 12 Dec. 2025
• This attention-hogging accelerator was, of course, the cathode-ray tube (CRT), which reigned supreme as the electronic display technology for decades, before being unceremoniously relegated to the figurative and literal trash heap of history by flat-screen technologies.
  — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Dec. 2019