How to Use folder in a Sentence

folder

noun
  • More piles of books and folders are scattered across the floor.
    Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Milà i Canals said the email was filtered to a spam folder.
    Lisa Song, ProPublica, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Then click Empty in the upper right of the trash folder.
    Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The video will be saved as an MP4 in your downloads folder.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2024
  • To add other apps to the new folder, just hold and drag each one to the folder of your choice.
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The folder also contained a code for her date of death.
    Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
  • To delete them, open /var/spool/cups in Finder and delete any items in that folder.
    José Adorno, BGR, 31 Oct. 2022
  • For a long time, Coates kept the Grant drawings in a folder under his bed.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
  • In the center of the space, Aaron Kiefer is sorting through a pile of manilla folders.
    A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 13 June 2023
  • Press kits used to be high-gloss, hard-copy folders, but there is no need for that today.
    Jessica Wong, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • There were so many overdubs, the album folder grew to half a terabyte.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Users could click directly on files and folders on the desktop to open them.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Score the straight lines that lead to the center using a bone folder and fold the straight lines to make an umbrella shape.
    Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Sprawled across his desk are several stacks of folders each about a foot high.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • When culling files on a cloud service, know that most platforms will move them to the trash folder and keep them there for 30 days.
    Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 21 Sep. 2023
  • But that email too often ends up in a claimant's spam folder, Boynton added.
    Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2022
  • He’d been given two thick folders full, but not that many people lived around here.
    Thomas Korsgaard, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The pack comes with 125 folders, so you'll be fully prepared for future semesters.
    Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023
  • Each space can have its own background color and its own set of bookmarks and folders.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Apple stopped syncing new photos to the folder on June 26.
    Justin Pot, Popular Science, 6 July 2023
  • Instead, Rader just gets to work with the weekend sports and his phone’s gallery folder, full of artwork.
    Callum Sutherland, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
  • In one image, a black leather handbag sits on a messy desk atop a pile of printouts and manila folders.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Why is my newsletter in spam? Adding us to your address book will help get us out of your spam folder.
    CNN, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Make sure to not only check the main inbox regularly but to check the spam folder as well.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • As a bonus, the pages are perforated so they can be torn out and kept in binders, folders, or on the inside of a locker door.
    L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Choose Open folder to see where it’s stored on your computer.
    Fox News, 29 Oct. 2023
  • There's a folder on his computer just for photos of sad sloths.
    Sean Evans, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The cost of planners, binders and folders has gone up an average of 48.5% in that same period.
    Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • As Franke flipped through a manila folder, an old black and white photograph caught my eye.
    Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • This will send any message from someone not saved in your phone’s contact list to the Unknown Senders folder.
    Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023

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