How to Use computer in a Sentence

computer

noun
  • He works all day on a computer.
  • Either way, teens are loving this style of keyboard, which can be easily hooked up to any computer.
    Cailey Lindberg, Good Housekeeping, 21 Mar. 2023
  • There’s the algorithm, and there are the formats, or what computer scientists call the data structures.
    David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Errors can pop up because of the data that’s used (the internet is hardly immune from falsehoods) or the computer code.
    Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2023
  • 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 same lens wipes that clean your glasses can also clean your phone, tablet, and computer screen, removing bacteria, dust, dirt, and germs and shining up the glass without scratching it.
    Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Nielsen’s streaming ratings cover viewing on TV sets only and don’t include minutes watched on computers or mobile devices.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Software apps powered by these models are designed to recognize, understand and produce coherent text, images or lines of computer code from user prompts.
    Angus Loten, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The live video of the board meeting played on the computer in the background.
    Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, 14 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • There's enough space for a computer or laptop and even a small house plant.
    Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Well, there are few jobs that will replace you just like computers did.
    Steve Inskeep, NPR, 14 June 2024
  • 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
  • This is a computer, making thousands of robocalls with the same folksy voice.
    Charlie Smart, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • With the rise of computer dating, suddenly, there were plenty more fish in the sea.
    Tacita Quinn, CNN, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Apple has billed them as the world's first spatial computers.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Buying a new computer monitor is, in a lot of ways, a lot like buying a new TV.
    Karl Klockars, PCMAG, 16 June 2023
  • The chest strap fits nicely, and the laptop sleeve has help up in protecting our computer.
    Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The model is small storefronts, so don’t expect to hang around with your computer.
    Ann Trieger Kurland, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The desktop computer, on which the funkmaster has now written nine books, sits in one corner.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2023
  • You can get burned out on a computer screen pretty quickly.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Zero Day is when every plane stops at the same moment, or when all computers freeze.
    Giovanni Bogani, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024
  • At the beginning, Flamini had written a journal on the computer and shared it with the researchers, but this didn’t last.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
  • You are instructed to fill in the information blanks either on the computer or by hand using the same pen to fill in the full form.
    Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 30 May 2023
  • To try and watch speciation in action, a team of scientists devised an experimental study that used computer simulations and some field data on the birds taken over several decades.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Scientist David Baker was also honored for using computer technology to design proteins.
    Adam Tamburin, Axios, 11 Oct. 2024

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