How to Use photocopy in a Sentence

photocopy

1 of 2 noun
  • She made a photocopy of the letter.
  • Have a photocopy of your card or a photo of it on your phone.
    Madalyn Amato, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
  • But, overall, the show looks and feels like a slightly sized-down photocopy of the original.
    Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Xerox art was big then, so people would come in to make photocopies and plaster them all over.
    New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Sashank Pathak owns a photocopy shop in one of the busiest markets of Ranchi, Jharkhand’s capital city.
    Manish Kumar, Quartz, 17 May 2022
  • Actually a press release about Yeti genes turned out to be just a grainy photocopy of a gas bill.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2012
  • Fans must show a CDC vaccination card, a photocopy of the card or a photo of the card on a mobile device.
    oregonlive, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Fans must show a CDC vaccination card, a photocopy of the card or photo of the card on a mobile device.
    oregonlive, 3 June 2021
  • Everyone should make a photocopy, front and back, of everything in their wallet/purse and place it in a safe place.
    Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Everyone should take a photocopy, front and back, of everything in their wallet or purse and keep it in a safe place.
    Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The black-and-white photocopy pops behind an inexpensive crafts-store green mat and black frame.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2022
  • People will be required to prove their status with their vaccine card, a photocopy or via an app on their phone.
    Ashraf Khalil, ajc, 22 Dec. 2021
  • One of my clips, retrieved from my paper's library as a photocopy, had a word handwritten atop it in the middle of a big white space.
    The Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Pinned to a corkboard in the office is a photocopy of a handwritten letter from Ginsberg.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 23 June 2023
  • Some prisoners will only get black-and-white photocopies of their mail.
    Sanya Mansoor, Time, 20 July 2023
  • At my urging, Dodek asked Fidelity for a photocopy of the back of the envelope.
    Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2018
  • There's a reason so many companies will sell you a photocopy of this icon of 1960s performance.
    Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Christenson gives you a verbal briefing and a photocopy of a Bulls Island map.
    John Bordsen, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2017
  • However, in the photocopy, all three rooms were labelled as being 14.13 square metres in size.
    Ted Chiang, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Each ten-year-old is equipped with a photocopy from the municipal archives, a map, and a set of highlighters: green for olive trees, red for vineyards, blue for wells, and yellow for lemons.
    Zoey Poll, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
  • An electoral official, Saeed Kakei, said that photocopies of the ballots had been made and preserved and could be examined for the recount.
    New York Times, 21 June 2018
  • People will be required to prove their status with their vaccination cards, a photocopy or via an app on their phones.
    Arkansas Online, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Chairs will not have access that allows them to see original early votes or photocopies.
    Alexander Tin, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Some physicians still require patients to pick up computer disks — or even photocopies — of their records in person.
    Natasha Singer, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Only on closer inspection does the viewer note a small photocopy of Bradley’s yearbook photo, high up amid the blackness.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
  • Another room features a picture of Franny and the walls and windows are covered with photocopies and Post-It notes, a nod to the evidence walls Carrie built early in the show's run.
    Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Proof of death includes an original or certified copy of the death certificate or a photocopy of the death certificate.
    Mark Kantrowitz, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Speziali shared a photocopy with the Einstein Papers Project, which published it in a volume of Einstein’s collected papers.
    Claire Parker, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The few physical copies that exist of Jean Écalle’s magnum opus look like little more than glorified photocopies.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
  • There were no movie theaters, bookstores, galleries or photocopy shops, so my entrepreneurial idea, which failed, was to open one, Chelsea Copy.
    New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
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photocopy

2 of 2 verb
  • Mr. Punyet photocopied the return address and wrote to him.
    Arthur Lubow, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
  • Burt photocopied a 1971 book of weather records by David Ludlum and set to work updating the numbers.
    William Langewiesche, The Hive, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Besides photocopying his drivers license, the manager told him to call back in a few days to get the bill for the damage.
    Dave Brooks, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Sure, Charlson said, anyone can photocopy a $20 bill but that doesn’t mean it’s legal money.
    Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 24 May 2018
  • Encourage congregants to bring their own or photocopy or project prayers and texts.
    Paulina Pineda, azcentral, 12 May 2020
  • After Bornstein failed in several attempts to photocopy the file, one of the men asked for the original copies, which were handed to him, according to the source.
    Debra Goldschmidt and Jason Hanna, CNN, 2 May 2018
  • One time the professor photocopied my paper and handed it out to the class, minus my name, as an exemplary essay.
    Longreads, 16 June 2018
  • Newsom allowed reporters to review — but not photocopy — his 2018 tax years at the state Capitol on Friday.
    Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2020
  • If Newport Aeronautical had the documents, Barazin would photocopy and overnight them to the customers.
    WIRED, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Some of the papers looked liked they had been repeatedly photocopied and had inconsistent seals and stamps, according to the complaint.
    Cary Spivak, Journal Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Eyes are among the parts of her anatomy that C. Tara Gladden photocopied for an installation that arrays collages under black light.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 July 2019
  • If some are crisper than others, that’s an indication that parts of the document have been photocopied multiple times.
    Rachel Monroe, The Atlantic, 16 July 2019
  • Now, prisoners receive personal pieces of mail after the staff has photocopied it.
    Talia Kirkland, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
  • Ask whether your church can instead photocopy or electronically display or project prayers, songs and texts.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 15 May 2021
  • The prison may open and photocopy incoming mail and share the copies with inmates due to concerns about contraband entering the facility.
    oregonlive, 28 June 2022
  • Another scenario: If someone were to photocopy their ballot and submit it 10 times, the barcode would ensure that their vote was only counted once.
    Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Feb. 2022
  • In fact, publishers and authors whose books are photocopied or otherwise plagiarized just come to rely on Amazon even more.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, 24 June 2019
  • The screener asked what the money was for, photocopied her ID and travel documents and held her luggage until a Pennsylvania state trooper arrived.
    Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Clerks must also photocopy the identification and ask to photograph the filers.
    Craig R. McCoy, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
  • Everybody was interested in anything that was available—a book being passed around that’s photocopied, a secret concert.
    Marisa Mazria Katz, The New York Review of Books, 30 May 2020
  • Benjy Mason, who worked at Canopy around 2010, remembers having to photocopy driver's licenses and process paper forms.
    Emma Balter, Chron, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the Michigan Secretary of State is encouraging clerks across the state to photocopy an adequate supply of ballots if a shortage appears likely.
    Mikhayla Dunaj, Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2020
  • On the ground outside a boutique hotel whose rooms were named after Hittite kings and Greek goddesses are remnants of previous lives: photocopied notes on gland tumors, a battered jean jacket, a container of baby food.
    Salwan Georges, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
  • My father would laboriously photocopy it, deliver it to our neighbors with me.
    Recode Staff, Recode, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The company's first logo with Old English type included an image of a pretzel, which was created when an employee took a real, baked pretzel and photocopied it on an office machine.
    Joy Bauer, Woman's Day, 23 June 2017
  • Hers is an interdisciplinary art that often juxtaposes scraps of academic text photocopied from books and reordered to give it new meaning.
    New York Times, 9 Sep. 2019
  • During the 2022 Massachusetts primary, a town-wide ballot shortage in Marblehead forced election officials to photocopy ballots, which could not be run through voting machines and had to be counted by hand.
    Nicole Moeder, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2022
  • For example, what Xerox is to photocopy industry, Jockey is to underwear market.
    Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 31 July 2019
  • Xerox's roots lie in Chester Carlson's invention of xerography, a process that made photocopying on plain paper easier, faster and cheaper than previous methods.
    Alex Scimecca, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Foster cat coordinator Samantha Burgin’s foster puppy has his paws photocopied as a promotion for an upcoming adoption event.
    Emily Zentner, sacbee, 3 July 2017

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