How to Use computer in a Sentence

computer

noun
Definition of computernext
  • He works all day on a computer.
  • Just a few weeks ago, Hannah Chea spent most of her week sitting in front of a computer for work.
    — Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2024
  • In a small, windowless room in San Francisco, rows of computers whir with an intensity that borders on a scream.
    — Leslie Katz, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The live video of the board meeting played on the computer in the background.
    — Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, 14 Sep. 2023
  • To avoid this, cancel and sign in to YouTube on your computer.
    — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Then, by all means, log off of your computer and go right now.
    — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2024
  • There's enough space for a computer or laptop and even a small house plant.
    — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Touch the option to scan a QR code and point your camera at the QR code on your computer screen and you’re done.
    — Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The irony of typing by the light of my computer monitor is not lost me.
    — cincinnati.com, 10 May 2023
  • In the new study, the researchers used a computer model to look at the effects of different factors on the shift of the poles.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
  • Next the team set an ambitious new goal: listen to large swathes of the ocean in the hopes of training a computer to learn to speak whale.
    — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Well, there are few jobs that will replace you just like computers did.
    — Steve Inskeep, NPR, 14 June 2024
  • Maybe today a smart kid might quit school To teach my computer how to write my poem.
    — Robert Pinsky, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • This is a computer, making thousands of robocalls with the same folksy voice.
    — Charlie Smart, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • With the rise of computer dating, suddenly, there were plenty more fish in the sea.
    — Tacita Quinn, CNN, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Apple has billed them as the world's first spatial computers.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Buying a new computer monitor is, in a lot of ways, a lot like buying a new TV.
    — Karl Klockars, PCMAG, 16 June 2023
  • The chest strap fits nicely, and the laptop sleeve has help up in protecting our computer.
    — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The model is small storefronts, so don’t expect to hang around with your computer.
    — Ann Trieger Kurland, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The desktop computer, on which the funkmaster has now written nine books, sits in one corner.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2023
  • You can get burned out on a computer screen pretty quickly.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Zero Day is when every plane stops at the same moment, or when all computers freeze.
    — Giovanni Bogani, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024
  • At the beginning, Flamini had written a journal on the computer and shared it with the researchers, but this didn’t last.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
  • You are instructed to fill in the information blanks either on the computer or by hand using the same pen to fill in the full form.
    — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 30 May 2023
  • Before leaving, the men smashed the couple's computer and their phones and put the husband in the bathroom with his wife, according to the complaint.
    — Cristian Santana, NBC News, 29 July 2023
  • The problem was traced to a faulty computer power supply unit that was replaced.
    — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
  • Some kind of species, some tower of mashed potatoes, covering the light on their computer screen.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 17 May 2023
  • Making the web public domain opened it up to anyone who had a computer.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2023
  • The sniper had multiple camera eyes and was controlled by a computer over 1,000 miles away.
    — Andi Shae Napier, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Kahle’s statue carries a book in one hand and a computer mouse in the other, the latter held out like an offering.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024

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