How to Use fax in a Sentence

fax

noun
  • She sent me a fax of her report.
  • She sent me a copy of her report by fax.
  • Grubhub, Seamless and Delivery.com come through the fax.
    New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Not to mention pagers and fax machines have largely gone the way of the dinosaur, too.
    Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023
  • To this day, her preferred method of getting in touch is a fax machine.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 5 July 2023
  • This best-selling HP DeskJet printer can print, scan, copy, fax, and more.
    Claire Harmeyer, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2023
  • No old school fax machine whirred in the background at the football office.
    Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2021
  • The ideal home printer should be a jack of all trades, able to print, scan, copy and fax (if the now-peculiar need should arise).
    Dave Johnson, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • This printer can scan photos, but also print, copy, and fax.
    Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2022
  • This was pre-internet, pre-cell phones – all our exchanges were done by fax.
    Dan Heching, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
  • China Manned Space did not respond to a Reuters fax request for comment.
    NBC News, 14 June 2021
  • Binders of staff phone numbers, landline phones and old fax machines were dusted off.
    Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The fax did not answer a question about whether Drinov's detention was linked to the screenshot.
    Dake Kang, Star Tribune, 19 May 2021
  • People who are encouraged to do business via phone, fax, online, etc., to help protect the town’s staff and reduce the spread of the virus.
    Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 6 Aug. 2021
  • They can also be printed and returned to the division in person, by fax or by mail.
    Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Others require you to submit requests form by fax, email or mail.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2022
  • When my father moved back to Taiwan, my family bought a pair of fax machines.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The earliest Mormons performed exorcisms in the age of the first fax machines.
    Andrew Kay, Longreads, 17 July 2021
  • There weren’t fax machines and email, so there was no way of acquiring a script prior to an audition.
    Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 30 June 2023
  • Super popular both at home and in small offices, an MFD is a jack of all trades, able to print, copy, scan and sometimes even fax, all from the same device.
    Dave Johnson, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • Once inside, while fixing her fax machine, the victim, Ms. Thomas, caught the field tech stealing her credit cards from her purse.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 28 July 2022
  • Phone, mail, email and fax reservations will be not accepted.
    Forrest Brown, CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Individuals can send up to five free faxes a day, and since 2012, the site has listed the fax numbers for members of the House and Senate.
    Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Ginsberg calling their bluff about not having access to a fax machine.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Printers, fax machines and scanners Using your smartphone as a scanner can save a lot of time - and paper.
    Tatum Hunter, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Early in the pandemic, many of the state’s Covid case reports arrived by fax on the fifth floor of the state health department’s office in Anchorage.
    Sharon Lafraniere, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The Trump administration took a late swing at the fax machine earlier this month.
    Tom Simonite, Wired, 22 Dec. 2020
  • When developers were busy building Web 2.0 file sharing, the fax machine was still a daily fact of life.
    Brian Platz, Forbes, 1 June 2022
  • Patrons can also pick up holds; print, fax and copy free of charge; and use information services and restrooms.
    oregonlive, 3 June 2021
  • In modern job searches, tidy one-page résumés are increasingly going the way of the fax machine.
    New York Times, 19 July 2021

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