index card

noun

: a thin paper card used especially for creating an alphabetical index
kept recipes on index cards

Examples of index card in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web One of these methods is a pinhole projector, in which small holes (for example, in an index card) can project the image of the sun on a nearby surface. Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 29 Sep. 2024 Eclipses can also be viewed indirectly using a pinhole projector such as a hole punched through an index card. Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024 Viewers can indirectly observe the eclipse by poking a hole through cardboard or an index card and looking at the shadow cast on the ground when the sunlight filters through. Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2024 Instead, those without glasses can utilize an indirect viewing method, such as by using an index card with a hole in it to project an image of the sun onto a nearby surface, the singer explained. USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024 Those two words have appeared on an index card displayed in Super Bowl champion coach Andy Reid’s office across various stops in his career. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024 What Andy Reid taught John Harbaugh Behind Reid’s desk in Philadelphia was a 3x5 index card on a bulletin board. Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024 Mike Aguilar Costa Mesa :: Lincoln Riley’s game plan probably couldn’t fit on anything more than an index card. Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023 Tangy Mee Goreng Her brother, Narayan Kaimal, found that recipe written in her father’s neat handwriting on an index card from the 1970s. Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023

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“Index card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/index%20card. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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