TAPE in a Sentence

Learn TAPE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
52 example sentences for TAPE, such as:
1. We've got the film on tape.
2. I used tape to tie up the box.
3. I'll listen to the tape tomorrow.
4. The data is stored on the magnetic tape.
5. Stick reflective tape on your school bag.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of TAPE
tape
 n.  a long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening
 v.  fasten or attach with tape
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  Then she passed the tape measure about her waist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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)
1  We played a tape of African music and began dancing.
2  The little money that was available was tied up in bureaucratic red tape.
3  Stick reflective tape on your school bag.
4  Because of all red tape at immigration I missed my connecting flight.
5  I rewound the tape and played her voice back to her.
6  She expunged the sound of his voice from the tape recording.
7  The sticky tape on the parcel came unstuck and the whole thing came undone.
8  Using a wide tape gives better quality sound reproduction.
9  I used tape to tie up the box.
10  The data is stored on the magnetic tape.
11  A cassette tape recorder can easily record sound on and play sound back from tape.
12  We've got the film on tape.
13  A half million people watched the troops march in New York's ticker tape parade.
14  I'll listen to the tape tomorrow.
15  Waddington rewound the tape and played the message again.