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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