How to Use folder in a Sentence

folder

noun
  • The guy didn’t even look at it, just put it back in the folder.
    Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
  • More piles of books and folders are scattered across the floor.
    Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Complete the look with gloves and a folder to write down all of your clues.
    Larry Stansbury, Good Housekeeping, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Milà i Canals said the email was filtered to a spam folder.
    Lisa Song, ProPublica, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Then click Empty in the upper right of the trash folder.
    Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The video will be saved as an MP4 in your downloads folder.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2024
  • To add other apps to the new folder, just hold and drag each one to the folder of your choice.
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The images in the folder will not show up in your photos feed.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 18 May 2021
  • The student must bring one folder, even though they are sold in packs of 10.
    Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Answer your phone and check your email — even the spam folder.
    Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2021
  • At the meeting, a man stands in the back of the room holding a large gray file folder by the handle.
    AZCentral.com, 22 June 2022
  • The folder also contained a code for her date of death.
    Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
  • To delete them, open /var/spool/cups in Finder and delete any items in that folder.
    José Adorno, BGR, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Upload the photo files to (the Google folder on the city’s website).
    Linda Gandee, cleveland, 22 Mar. 2022
  • For a long time, Coates kept the Grant drawings in a folder under his bed.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The only apps allowed to have badges are the social, chat, and email apps in the Comms folder.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 11 Feb. 2024
  • In the center of the space, Aaron Kiefer is sorting through a pile of manilla folders.
    A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 13 June 2023
  • The text is displayed on screen, and saved as a series of text files in the same folder as the audio.
    David Nield, Popular Science, 10 July 2024
  • Drag and drop them over into a new folder on your Mac and you should be all set.
    Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Two other files were stored in a folder on the Windows drive of the laptop.
    Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Adding us to your address book will help get us out of your spam folder.
    CNN, 3 May 2022
  • The first is by adding the VBS file to a computer’s startup folder.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Hang onto the plant tags in a folder or small scrapbook.
    Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 June 2024
  • Be careful or your mail won't go through to the inbox folder.
    Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY, 7 June 2021
  • Nearby, the corner of a folder was bleached by the sun coming through the window.
    BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2021
  • Press kits used to be high-gloss, hard-copy folders, but there is no need for that today.
    Jessica Wong, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • And bank on this: Sankey will never have to go hunting for that pesky folder.
    Chase Goodbread, USA TODAY, 7 June 2022
  • To delete a file, just select it and click the Remove button up in the top right corner (the trash can) to send it to the Trash folder.
    David Nield, Wired, 18 July 2021
  • Use a finger or stylus to drag one app on top of another to make a new folder.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024
  • There's a folder on his computer just for photos of sad sloths.
    Sean Evans, Robb Report, 10 Oct. 2024

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