How to Use keystroke in a Sentence

keystroke

noun

• He deleted all of my work with a single keystroke.
• Still, the soft landing at the end of each keystroke works well for prolonged use.
  — Charles Jefferies, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2025
• And there were the staffers whose keystrokes on a computer made that happen.
  — Deb Riechmann, chicagotribune.com, 12 Oct. 2019
• Saving a few keystrokes doesn’t fix a broken system.
  — Fj Campbell, Fortune, 20 May 2026
• The weather can't ruin your plans, and changing a setup is the work of a few keystrokes.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2018
• In the modern age, panic can be transmitted with just a few keystrokes.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2023
• The keystroke pressure is uniform across the keyboard.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
• The computer could be turned off so that the screen was blank, but could be powered back up with just a couple keystrokes.
  — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 18 June 2019
• Tools can track a worker’s every keystroke and mouse movement and analyze his or her emails.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
• Vissles says the key switches have a 60 million-keystroke lifespan.
  — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 12 Aug. 2021
• But a trove of games endures online, meaning a basketball fix is mere keystrokes away.
  — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
• With each keystroke, Ohrnberger peeled back the curtain on a game that’s something far more for those in it.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2019
• Liner switches are quiet and have a smooth and consistent keystroke.
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
• But those videos were there, all the time, ready for any 15-year-old alienated white boy to find with a couple of keystrokes.
  — Bob Moser, New Republic, 21 Aug. 2017
• Each keystroke moved the first wheel a single notch, and, after 26 entries, the second wheel ticked one slot.
  — Michael M. Rosen, National Review, 20 June 2021
• Careful programming was required for user time slices so that each session would not drop keystrokes.
  — Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2023
• Doing so sends a message to the computer that a keystroke is happening.
  — Michael Dobuski, ABC News, 18 Feb. 2023
• What if each of those keystrokes could give you a gratifying clicking sensation?
  — Popular Science, 5 Dec. 2019
• Its keystrokes are smooth and responsive, while also providing the ability to remap keys to suit your play style.
  — George Yang, PC Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026
• The notebook contained a strange system of numbers and letters which turned out to be computer keystrokes.
  — Thom Patterson, CNN, 19 July 2017
• This contact with the material sends a signal to the computer to record the keystroke.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
• And acoustic bugging has also been shown to reveal keystrokes on a physical keyboard.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2018
• The gunshots echoed in quick succession, rapid and metallic, like two keystrokes of a giant typewriter.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 17 June 2018
• That level of logging is almost as creepy as a company monitoring all of my keystrokes.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2018
• The Russians could follow the keystrokes and see the screens of the employees' computers.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, azcentral, 13 July 2018
• Some are waiting for an errant keystroke so your money can be intercepted, never to be returned.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
• She’s hunched over her computer, typing away furiously, the echo of her keystrokes bouncing around the compact space.
  — Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
• That might seem unremarkable in the age of Google and large language models, when knowledge of any kind awaits only a few keystrokes.
  — Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026
• Thanks to invasive software, companies can track your every click, keystroke and movement – even outside of work hours.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2021
• If found, the removal of the tracking program is generally all that’s needed to ensure that no keystrokes will be recorded from then on.
  — Ken Colburn, azcentral, 7 June 2018