Example sentences for: walkman

How can you use “walkman” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Modern technology--the Walkman, the cell phone, and the plastic bottle--has given us new ways to try to deal with this old feeling.

  • In our contemporary discourse, literacy and culture sometimes tend to be associated with the visual act of reading: What comes in through the ear, that organ of the Walkman, may be considered less reflective or intellectual.

  • Some of them are real gems: tableur (`tabular operator') for `spreadsheet' is concise, precise, and original; baladeur (`stroller') for `walkman,' although basically a loan translation, adds a fresh nuance to the imagery; best of all perhaps is ordinateur for `computer,' the French term (current since the 1960s, adopted by the Dictionnaire in 1983) meaning something like `methodically arranging agent.

  • The Walkman, the cell phone, the water bottle are efforts to regain the warmth and comfort of infancy and find relief from the loneliness of adulthood.

  • sow bow walkman.


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