How to Use digitize in a Sentence

digitize

verb
Definition of digitizenext
  • The record company digitized the songs and made them available on the Internet.
  • The move is part of the U.K.'s plan to fully digitize its borders by 2025.
    — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
  • For Wal-Mart, the move is part of a broader effort to digitize its stores to make shopping faster.
    — Fortune, 26 Oct. 2017
  • In the second, clothes are digitized and overlaid on top of a photo or video of the customer, much like a Snapchat mask.
    — Oleg Lola, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • State Police say the cases remain open and the agency plans to digitize the old case files.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Watch this video to see how apps can help digitize old photos.
    — Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
  • Items brought to the event will be scanned and digitized and then added to a statewide digital collection at openarchives.umb.edu.
    — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
  • Or, although the portraits are large, they could be digitized and added to the family tree.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Houston Chronicle, 9 May 2018
  • The Catalan government has digitized the ballot so voters can print it out and take it to the polls.
    — Pamela Rolfe, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Google Books, which has scanned and digitized a canon of books going back centuries, doesn’t show much usage of the word until the 1960s.
    — Antonio García Martínez, WIRED, 11 May 2018
  • But there are clear reasons why libraries would want the option to digitize and lend their own books, too.
    — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 20 Mar. 2023
  • In the long run, Osmo seeks to digitize smell in the same way that images and sounds can be recorded and transmitted.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Keihn confirmed the origin of the film and spent eight months digitizing it.
    — Smithsonian, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Yet, the use of software to digitize the process for restaurants sounds appealing to investors.
    — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 26 Sep. 2022
  • So part of what happened was a stronger desire for these schools and companies to digitize?
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2021
  • Tap the plus button and then Scan to digitize your papers using the camera on your device.
    — David Nield, Popular Science, 3 Mar. 2021
  • So why has this effort to digitize the records only happened in the last several years?
    — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Researchers plan to digitize the collection in the near future.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Li & Fung, a 20-year partner of Kohl’s, is in the midst of a three-year plan to cut lead times by half and digitize its global supply chain for apparel.
    — Lindsey Rupp, Bloomberg.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Li & Fung, a 20-year partner of Kohl's, is in the midst of a three-year plan to cut lead times by half and digitize its global supply chain for apparel.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Once preserved, its pages will be digitized and added to Dublin’s online archive.
    — Ed O’Loughlin, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The push to digitize spans a number of processes across the companies.
    — Marc Bain, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Once the documents have been digitized, they will be made available for free on the Archives’ website.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 13 June 2018
  • And at the same time, working with Johnny Fay, who took the lead on the music side, working with Universal on digitizing all the tapes.
    — Karen Bliss, SPIN, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The library first began to digitize its holdings in 1990.
    — Maris Kreizman, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2022
  • How to digitize text using an Android phone Open your Camera app and point the phone at a document.
    — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 8 May 2022
  • The packages were opened as part of an ongoing project to digitize the contents of the National Archives.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
  • This may be a bit time-consuming, as the records are digitized and browsable but not easily searched.
    — The Root, 12 Jan. 2018
  • As companies moved to the cloud and digitized their data amid the global pandemic, the company got an initial boost.
    — Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Also consider digitizing any family photos that aren’t already stored in the cloud.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025

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