How to Use copy in a Sentence

copy

1 of 2 noun

• The novel has sold more than a million copies.
• She got a job writing advertising copy.
• All copy must be submitted by 5 p.m.
• The brokerage provides copies of the 1099-B both to the investor and to the IRS.
  — Ellis Simani, ProPublica, 22 June 2023
• Tears of the Kingdom has sold 19.5 million copies since May.
  — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
• Each of us had our separate copy; each of us read the first line.
  — Wyatt Mason, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• But for this weekend, let the hunger games to procure a copy begin.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Nov. 2023
• The original sold 9 million copies in the U.S. and earned a Grammy for album of the year.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2023
• Anyway, Melton is going to get Todd Haynes to sign his copy of Safe.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2024
• The number of people who are burning copies of the Quran remains small.
  — Time, 15 Aug. 2023
• All three of his albums have sold more than 2 million copies or units each.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• The spokesman said the owner provided copies of the paperwork, which was filed in Wyoming.
  — Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2023
• In the months following the trial, Penguin sold three million copies of the book.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023
• In this case by posing for a picture while holding up a copy of the Telegraph as proof of life.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• On a coffee table were bowls of fresh fruit and jelly beans, and a copy of that morning’s Times.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• What is the probability that two copies of die A roll a sum that beats two copies of die B?
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• Instead, each writer receives 10% of the retail price of each copy sold.
  — Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• Anderson and Smith were in the back seat, according to a copy of the indictment.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
• Among other records, the archives contain a copy of Hubble’s logbook from the fall of 1923.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• But a copy of the statement, which was shared by Texas Family Project, is on its website.
  — Angela Yang, NBC News, 9 June 2023
• The only thing that survived was one copy of the trailer that’s been lurking around the darkest corners of 4Chan.
  — Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• Bids are surging past the $500 mark for the few copies available on Ebay — and fans are combing the shelves of European stores in the hopes of finding one.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
• Parks won't accept electronic copies of the voucher on a phone.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 17 Jan. 2024
• Thomas handed William a copy of her book about her historic birth and the life that followed called Hold On Edna!
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
• Thirty titles were sent out to start, fifty thousand copies of each.
  — Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• There’s a copy of the letter in the police file, but it was sent out a year and a half before Alexis went missing, not two weeks.
  — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• Impressed by his knowledge of foreign affairs and language skills, The Times hired him as a copy boy.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 9 July 2023
• To reserve a seat, purchase one copy of a book for one seat.
  — Holly Andres, Daily News, 6 Feb. 2026
• The Sacramento Bee did not receive an advanced copy of the book.
  — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 5 Feb. 2026
• Since 2018, the trilogy has sold over 3 million copies around the world.
  — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2026

copy

2 of 2 verb

• Copy the file to your hard drive.
• The speech was copied word for word.
• We caught him copying out of the book.
• We caught him copying the answers out of the book.
• She copied the design on a piece of paper.
• Their competitors soon copied the idea.
• His music was copied widely.
• The bills are designed to prevent copying by counterfeiters.
• So copy it down, put it on the menu, and make Mama proud.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2023
• If you’re tempted to copy Colman’s style, the key is to keep it sleek and close to the head.
  — Georgia Day, Vogue, 30 Nov. 2023
• Trying to copy the order and the speed and the tempo… stay away from that.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 25 Mar. 2024
• If not, copy and paste the article in and ask the same question.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• But no one is quite sure how a cuttlefish brain takes what the eyes see and gets the muscles of the skin to copy it.
  — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• Or, copy the sample post below and click the images to save them.
  — Thomas Catenacci, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2023
• With me four years younger copying her every move, I was hooked.
  — Olivia Bria, refinery29.com, 2 May 2023
• Please copy and paste your submission in the body of the email, and attach it as either a Word or Google doc.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
• These days, Louis loves to copy Charlotte's every move.
  — Monique Jessen, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
• They have been widely copied and adopted by governments around the world in the many years since.
  — Kerry J. Byrne Fox News, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2023
• As time went on, parts sometimes wrote e-mails to one another (and copied me).
  — Rebecca J. Lester, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• No systems or deeds from the past can be copied and pasted into our own time.
  — Adam M. Carrington, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
• My children copied the local kids by using the bottom of one of the many statues as a slide.
  — Naomi Tomky, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Mar. 2024
• Style them with a blazer to skip a coat, or copy Kelsey Lim, founder of Able Objects, by piling them high.
  — Erika Veurink, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023
• Voice of Chandler copied the name and is in touch with the group but didn't start as an affiliate, D'Costa said.
  — The Arizona Republic, 16 Jan. 2024
• Reid: Nobody in this campaign has tried to copy the Trump model more than Vivek.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023
• The data were copied onto the data-recovery system and dropped from the sky.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2023
• Russian forces have copied many of the tactics that Ukraine pioneered.
  — Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024
• Once exposed, that data can be copied, scraped and shared forever.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Feb. 2026
• So, copy Lawrence’s travel look for your upcoming flight or, well, for anything else, really.
  — Eva Thomas, InStyle, 30 Jan. 2026
• Pick up these under-$100 styles to copy her classically cool look.
  — Clara McMahon, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
• When shown how to open the puzzles, children copied all the steps, even unnecessary ones.
  — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026