How to Use computer in a Sentence

computer

noun
  • He works all day on a computer.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This device is the spitting image of Apple’s ’80s-era computer, right down to the floppy drive and the rainbow sticker.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The pharmacists is seen looking at a computer screen and clicking on a mouse silently for a few seconds.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
  • But middle schoolers can’t access the site from their school computers.
    Tara García Mathewson, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Any hobbies to get them outside, and not on social media and computers.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 13 June 2023
  • Which computer or smartphone is right for students heading back to school?
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • My perfect day off would be a day with no electronics near me — no devices, no phone, no computer, no iPad.
    Mekita Rivas, Allure, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Though the researchers’ computer model is intricate and took years to fine tune, real-world tests and data are needed to back up the idea.
    Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The results are evocative of a Mechwarrior computer game.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 2 Sep. 2023
  • There’s no substitute for finding a great hike, breathing fresh air, and getting away from the roils of everyday life in front of phone and computer screens.
    Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The movie will be filmed in both Taiwan and Japan and the project hopes to lean on Korean companies for special effects and computer graphics.
    Sophia Sun, Variety, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Deep discounts on a desktop computer like this are few and far between, which makes this deal more appealing.
    Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 8 June 2023
  • Yes, Google has made changes to fix that, but popping into the settings will further reduce the load on your system and keep your computer happy.
    Fox News, 9 Oct. 2023
  • That’s a tall cylindrical structure where flight computers and connecting wires are mounted in a frame the size and shape of the Space Launch System rocket.
    Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 18 Aug. 2023
  • That paper ballot displays the voter’s choices in two ways: in text, which can be read by a human, and in a QR code, which can be read only by a computer.
    Amy Gardner, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
  • With computer vision tools, mouse behavioral tests can run in a fraction of the time that would be required with human observers.
    Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2024
  • That’s almost twice as thick as the 13.4-mm Galaxy Fold 5 phone, but the Spectre houses a more powerful computer inside.
    WIRED, 16 Sep. 2023

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