How to Use keypad in a Sentence
keypad
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Videos showed the men using a keypad to go inside a locked room.
—Jeremy Gorner and Elyssa Cherney, miamiherald, 30 Apr. 2018
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Outline if the renter will need a key, a remote, or a keypad code.
—Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Apr. 2026
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The initial effort came in the form of a garage with glass doors and a keypad.
—Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune, 2 June 2021
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Take your book, enter a code on a keypad, and push the bookcase open.
—Carrie Honaker, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 June 2026
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There is a clean and spacious bath house on the patio accessed by keypad.
—Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2024
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Compare the card reader and keypad to the rest of the machine.
—Marley Malenfant, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
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But tapping the keypad produced light taps at the tips of my fingers.
—Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2023
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The keypad was broken, and all attempts to type in the code were fruitless.
—Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
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With Jump, riders check out a bike using an app and a keypad on the back wheel.
—New York Times, 3 July 2018
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Skimming devices are sometimes placed over the card slot or keypad.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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Police said small plastic pieces that have a pinhole near the keypad could be a camera.
—Deborah Kadin, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
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This mode locks the keypad so it can’t be unlocked from the outside using the touchpad.
—Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 15 Jan. 2025
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The keyboard has retro-style round and raised keypads to make typing with long nails easier.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2026
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Except, of course, that’s a lie — a keypad is capable of nothing on its own.
—Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
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Employees had to use a keypad to open doors around the building so managers could trace their movements.
—Mark Maremont, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2021
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Colorful blooms also distract the eye from the high-tech keypad over the door handle.
—Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 5 May 2023
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Wipe down the inside of the door, the exterior of the door, keypad, and door handle as well.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 16 May 2026
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It’s been used as a video game controller, a macro keypad, and even as a DIY geiger counter.
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2023
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There’s also an option to use a Braille keypad, touchscreen or sip-and-puff device.
—Marissa Evans, Star Tribune, 3 Nov. 2020
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There’s even a key fob available so that the system can be turned on and off without needing to use the system’s keypad.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2021
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Nuki is also planning to launch a code-only keypad for $89.
—PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
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The keyboard is roomy and responsive, even squeezing a tiny numeric keypad to the right.
—Christopher Null, WIRED, 23 June 2024
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But the Courant found the bottom-row of buttons on the kiosks’ keypads are about 50 inches from the ground.
—Vinny Vella, Courant Community, 6 Sep. 2017
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At the center of the escutcheon is a touch screen keypad with numbers 0 to 9 and an auto-lock button.
—John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 11 Apr. 2026
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Some skimmers can also record the user's PIN that's typed on the keypad.
—Littice Bacon-Blood, NOLA.com, 14 Dec. 2017
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The sizable pink keypad lights up with flamingoes, palm trees, hearts, and the Barbie logo behind the keys.
—PCMAG, 12 Feb. 2025
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The laptop is wide enough to accommodate a numeric keypad to the right of the keyboard.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
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Carefully inspect card readers and keypads for signs of tampering or anything that feels loose or out of place.
—Lori Smith, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2026
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Punch in your destination airport on the keypad, and the map displays helpful route guidance to point you the way.
—Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 18 May 2017
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In some instances, a keypad may be installed overtop of the device's keypad, to copy the keystrokes of a customer's pin.
—Harrison Jones, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
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