How to Use stylus in a Sentence

stylus

noun
  • No more will the stylus slip away over the edge of the screen.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The room was silent but for the whir of the machinery and the slow scrape of the stylus.
    Amit Katwala, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
  • In chiton, the stylus connects the tooth to the radula.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 31 May 2021
  • The tablet comes equipped with a stylus too, which is great for note-taking.
    Gear Team, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2022
  • First, the stylus rotates to squeeze out a bubble of pee.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2023
  • What less clear is whether the Galaxy S21 and folding phones will have a slot for the stylus.
    Michael Simon, PCWorld, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Most tablets don't come with a stylus, but the Tab S7 includes an S Pen.
    Eric Ravenscraft, Wired, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The stylus can be used for up to 45 minutes with just a 15-second charge.
    Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The bottom has a stylus slot, USB-C port, and a headphone jack.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Oh, and there's a stylus, like on the new Galaxy S22 Ultra.
    Adam Speight, Wired, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The stylus rotates along a hinge, then catapults the pee away from the bug at a high speed.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The case even comes with a handy holder for a Samsung S-Pen stylus too.
    Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The Fold 3 should support the S Pen stylus and feature a stronger type of bendable glass.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 6 July 2021
  • This includes the stylus for your foldable phone, and the case has a little holster to hold it on the back.
    Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The stylus is exclusive to the Galaxy Z Fold 3 for the time being.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The phone looks just like a Note would complete with stylus support.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 10 Feb. 2022
  • She is seated with her feet on a stool, writing with a stylus on a wax tablet.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • This comes with 125 square sheets of scratch-art paper, plus a wooden stylus to use.
    Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The Amazon Fire Max 11, with the keyboard and stylus attached.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 24 May 2023
  • This model also comes with a stylus to use on the touchscreen.
    Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2022
  • It’s the first phone outside Samsung’s Note line that supports the S-Pen stylus.
    Jason Cipriani, CNN Underscored, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The vertical tracking angle (VTA) is the angle at which the stylus rests in the record groove.
    Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • That’s because of the S Pen stylus, which forced Samsung to give Note phones curved edges and flat top and bottom sides.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The reMarkable doesn’t come with a free stylus — that’ll cost you at least an extra $79.
    Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • On the tables, there are rulers, candles and kistkas, a stylus-like tool used to draw ornate designs in wax on the egg.
    Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The nibs on the stylus have a rougher texture, which gives the Scribe a more pleasant feeling when writing that the hard glass of the iPad will never have.
    Brandon Widder, The Verge, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The Fold phones offer buyers a tablet-like foldable screen, and the Fold 3 is getting its own stylus.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 19 June 2021
  • The handset will feature a large screen and S Pen stylus support, which are the two staples of the Note series.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 5 July 2021
  • There is no S Pen included with the S22 or S22+, and those phones don’t support the stylus either.
    Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The Fold phone, when un-folded, becomes like a quasi tablet, and the Note20 has a giant 6.9 screen and a companion stylus.
    Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2020

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