How to Use flash drive in a Sentence

flash drive

noun

• And then all that stupid s--- about the flash drive and the dumb McGuffin of it all.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• When the case is over, the court will collect and destroy the flash drives.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
• Your best bet is to copy the CDs to your smartphone or flash drive.
  — Motormouth Bob Weber, Star Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
• The center has barred the use of flash drives and disabled USB ports.
  — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2019
• To add your name to the flash drive, players will need to head over to the Artemis I website.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 7 Mar. 2022
• Go buy a $40 flash drive, copy those files to it and then toss it in a drawer.
  — Dallas News, 11 July 2019
• Hard disk drives last about five years, while flash drives last for around 10 years.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2023
• Save it on a flash drive or email the finished product to be saved for years to come!
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• Your best bet is to copy the CDs to your smart phone or flash drive or have a service copy them for you.
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2021
• And the flash drive’s detailed vote tallies matched those on the machine.
  — Eric Litke, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2020
• Keep your data backed up on a separate flash drive and in the cloud.
  — Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• The radio station got lucky, though, as the flash drive didn't explode.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2023
• Once both things have been downloaded, use the software to write the OS onto the flash drive.
  — Saira Mueller, WIRED, 3 Dec. 2023
• Put it on a flash drive or in your Dropbox, then sync it over and import it on your new PC.
  — Whitson Gordon, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2020
• The employee gave the officer a flash drive with video footage of the encounter.
  — cleveland, 14 Apr. 2022
• These are some of the lowest prices these mammoth flash drives have ever been.
  — Alexandria Haslam, PCWorld, 15 Aug. 2018
• Amazon This flash drive made our list of the Best iPad Accessories.
  — Nena Farrell, WIRED, 12 July 2023
• To combat the spread of the devices, some schools have banned flash drives as well, to avoid any confusion between the items.
  — Ana B. Ibarra, sacbee, 27 Mar. 2018
• The iXpand Luxe is our flash drive pick for backing up phone content.
  — Brenda Stolyar and Medea Giordano, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2022
• There’s lots of razzle-dazzle, but the plot, which involves the global hunt for a flash drive, doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
  — Sarah Weinman, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
• Customers will have to plug the flash drive into the USB port on the treadmill to apply the software update.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 16 June 2022
• The elastic loops can secure something as small as a flash drive or a longer cord wrapped up nicely.
  — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 28 July 2023
• It was smuggled out of Iran in a flash drive hidden inside a cake and shown at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 17 Aug. 2022
• Police later retrieved the flash drives, the warrant says.
  — David Owens, courant.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• This wasn’t an issue with HDMI or flash drive videos or with streaming.
  — Dallas News, 7 July 2022
• The assay includes a swab, a vial of extraction solution and a cassette the size of a small flash drive.
  — Emma Court, Bloomberg.com, 13 Oct. 2020
• Plugged into a computer or laptop to charge, the device looks like a long USB flash drive.
  — Katy Bergen, kansascity, 6 Sep. 2017
• Each bottle also contains enough rice to feed a family of four for a week, as well as a Bible on a flash drive and a U.S. $1 bill.
  — Eric Shawn, Fox News, 24 Dec. 2023
• Store them in the cloud and if possible keep a physical copy with your important papers or on a flash drive.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 11 Aug. 2024
• Todd has told media outlets, including Rolling Stone, that the book was given to him on a flash drive by two music industry sources.
  — Janelle Griffith, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024