How to Use computer in a Sentence

computer

noun
  • He works all day on a computer.
  • The live video of the board meeting played on the computer in the background.
    — Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, 14 Sep. 2023
  • There was one that had a computer, which was like a big deal.
    — Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 26 Feb. 2025
  • To avoid this, cancel and sign in to YouTube on your computer.
    — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Then, by all means, log off of your computer and go right now.
    — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2024
  • So the media could be moist, could be more than rigid screens and computers and all that sort of thing.
    — Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
  • The kit allows kids to build their very own computer with a step-by-step guide.
    — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2023
  • There's enough space for a computer or laptop and even a small house plant.
    — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Touch the option to scan a QR code and point your camera at the QR code on your computer screen and you’re done.
    — Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The game is so evenly matched that the CalPreps.com computer favors the Braves by a single point.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The irony of typing by the light of my computer monitor is not lost me.
    — cincinnati.com, 10 May 2023
  • In the new study, the researchers used a computer model to look at the effects of different factors on the shift of the poles.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
  • There aren’t many ports and the touchpad is embedded in the computer.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The perfect present for anyone who works on a computer all day, no?!
    — Cailey Lindberg, Good Housekeeping, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Just a few weeks ago, Hannah Chea spent most of her week sitting in front of a computer for work.
    — Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Next the team set an ambitious new goal: listen to large swathes of the ocean in the hopes of training a computer to learn to speak whale.
    — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • He's only allowed one hour of screen time per day on the computer.
    — Adriana Diaz, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Well, there are few jobs that will replace you just like computers did.
    — Steve Inskeep, NPR, 14 June 2024
  • Open an Excel sheet or Google sheet on the computer and create a new tab along the bottom for each bin.
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Maybe today a smart kid might quit school To teach my computer how to write my poem.
    — Robert Pinsky, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • But traces of that early 1990s computer code remain laced through the text.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Items in the bag were then placed through the machine one-by-one, which indicated the knife was in his computer.
    — Paul Best, Fox News, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Toward the end of the video police can be seen leaving with what appears to be a computer hard drive.
    — Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2025
  • The 17-year-old, who goes by Chris, has a knack for electronic systems and computers.
    — The Star, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2025
  • This is a computer, making thousands of robocalls with the same folksy voice.
    — Charlie Smart, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • Moreover, Grandpa may have no idea how the computer works, or what to make of fancy cell phones.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Crowds and noise and buildings and offices and computers and people!
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Close-up photos of the computer screens weren’t allowed.
    — Alex Heath, The Verge, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The aisles were lined with station after station of new computer games on display.
    — Henk Rogers, Time, 3 Apr. 2025
  • In 2021, as automakers tried to ramp up production that had been curtailed in the first year of the pandemic, a shortage of parts, most notably computer chips, cut into car production.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2025

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