How to Use magnetic tape in a Sentence

magnetic tape

noun

• Long-term storage was left to mediums like magnetic tape and punch cards.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2019
• When the creations are complete, affix magnetic tape to the backs.
  — Joan Lang, Woman's Day, 9 Sep. 2019
• Data may be stored on media that degrade, like punch cards, floppy disks or magnetic tape.
  — Keith Kintigh, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2018
• Twist magnetic tapes back into clean loops that say, Now repeat—qué onda?
  — Hazlitt, 29 Mar. 2023
• That strong magnetic tape, slipped into a little cassette recorder, has held us together for all these years.
  — Eileen Sharkey, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
• Like the hard disk and the transistor, magnetic tape has advanced enormously over the decades.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2018
• One of the most popular mediums for cold-data storage is magnetic tape.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2025
• Instead of punch cards, the computer used magnetic tape to input data.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Sep. 2024
• The most simplistic requires you to use tape, known as barrier tape, boundary tape, or just magnetic tape.
  — Popular Science, 15 Mar. 2021
• Since its invention in 1928, magnetic tape has played a role in recording all sorts of data.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Apr. 2018
• To be sure, the storage density of magnetic tape has been increasing for decades, a trend that will help keep our heads above the data flood for a while longer.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
• But digital recordings are perishable in their own right — far less stable, in fact, than recordings on magnetic tape.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2019
• Also, magnetic tape is manufactured in Japan as are many of the optical discs.
  — Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
• Unlike other robot vacuums, this one comes with a strip of magnetic tape that can be placed to block off an area or a room where it's not allowed to enter.
  — Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com, 17 July 2021
• Just a few years prior, magnetic tape data was read mechanically.
  — Ryan Larry, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2022
• That's a huge improvement over existing magnetic tape and hard drives used for archiving data, which are good for only up to a decade at the most.
  — New Atlas, 21 Feb. 2026
• The set includes a one-piece swimsuit, one pair of biker shorts, a wristband/headband set, magnetic tape earrings and legwarmers.
  — Lisa Levine, Variety, 5 Oct. 2022
• Besides authoring and loading data to and from disk packs and magnetic tape, an educator could view student progress and print copies.
  — Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2023
• The whirr of spooling magnetic tape is more likely to evoke feelings of nostalgia than technological awe.
  — The Economist, 15 Dec. 2020
• In part that’s because the physical media they were originally recorded on — film stock and magnetic tape — were so fragile.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• Its playback fidelity was superior to over-the-air programming and to magnetic tape.
  — Allison Marsh, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2025
• The power of the human voice, even transcribed imperfectly onto magnetic tape and played over a tinny speaker, was life-changing.
  — Adam Verner september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
• Oelze bought an Echoplex — a machine that uses magnetic tape to add delay to a sound — and ran Auldridge’s Dobro guitar through it.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2022
• The space agency often reused its expensive magnetic tapes, erasing and overwriting data.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 Apr. 2018
• Another is video, which is an electronic method of recording onto various mediums, such as moving magnetic tape.
  — Howard Berry, Quartz, 18 July 2019
• The company released Japan’s first-ever magnetic tape record in 1950.
  — John Towfighi, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
• For example, most digital archives are currently saved on magnetic tape, which only lasts about 30 years.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2026
• But a year’s worth of humanity’s data, on modern-day magnetic tape, would fill thirty thousand shipping containers.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2025
• To meet the need to read these old magnetic tapes Channel Science created its multiformat tape reader.
  — Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• The linear code is quite lengthy (about 6 feet long per human cell), so it’s stored neatly wound around protein bobbins, similar to how magnetic tape is wound around spools in cassette tapes.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020