How to Use identity card in a Sentence

identity card

noun
  • One day, their play led her to a box in her father’s study that contained an identity card.
    New York Times, 28 Mar. 2020
  • When the officers refused to do so, the gunman threw out his identity card.
    Time, 31 May 2018
  • Our identity cards were now marked with a large J, identifying us at a quick glance as Jews.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
  • The maulana of the mosque found the identity card of both the men from the pockets of their clothes after which their families were contacted, Wajid said.
    Vijayta Lalwani, Quartz, 19 Aug. 2021
  • This identity card seemed to me to be a thank you from the mayor to my father for having trusted him when he had been sidelined by Vichy.
    Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The courier signed up to work for Uber Eats in 2019, using someone else’s Italian identity card.
    WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The girl's government services identity card was found in a pavilion near the coast last Wednesday night.
    Steven Jiang, CNN, 15 July 2019
  • Hong Kong permanent identity card: This document grants the holder the right of abode in Hong Kong.
    Mary Hui, Quartz, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The verdict is expected to shape the outcome of a pending lawsuit filed in 2012 over the validity and scope of the identity card system, the largest in the world.
    Niharika Mandhana, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Once, after a simple identity card check went awry, he and his friends were driven out to a nearby forest in a squad car, dropped in the woods, and told to find their way home.
    Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Some bodies still had faces; others had identity cards in their pockets.
    Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Key Things to Know Belgium is meeting a sharp increase in demand with packs of pills free for anyone with a Belgian identity card.
    New York Times, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Americans don’t like the idea of a national identity card.
    Michael Segal, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Belgium is meeting a sharp increase in demand with packs of pills free for anyone with a Belgian identity card.
    The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2022
  • In 2018, the discovery of a Stasi identity card issued to Putin caused a media sensation in Germany.
    Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • Nearly four decades ago, Mo Fengyue leaned over the boat carrying her to China and dumped her Vietnamese identity cards into the river.
    Jessica Meyers, latimes.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Those who accept this identity card will have the chance to return to their lands, and rebuild their homes if they were destroyed in last year’s violence, Mr. Win Myat Aye said.
    Jon Emont, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2018
  • The company will spend up to a million dollars (which seems to be standard) on legal fees, notary fees, replacement identity cards, and the like.
    PCMAG, 30 Apr. 2024
  • The race of every citizen and permanent resident over the age of 15 is printed on the front of their national identity card.
    Ligaya Mishan Esther Choi, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Peter explained the problem: one of the guys was carrying a new identity card, rumored to contain a chip that can be used to identify and track people down.
    Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Aadhar identity card system are all part of the modern travel equation.
    Richard Kuipers, Variety, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The security guards at the gates checked the identity cards of the returning protesters, entering the campus.
    Mohd Nazeef Khan, Quartz India, 15 Dec. 2019
  • In February, the top court ruled that surgery was not necessary for transgender people to change their gender on their identity cards.
    Theodora Yu, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The clinic requires no insurance or even an identity card.
    Mohamed Hassan Awad, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2020
  • New identity cards forced people to choose an ethnicity, though many Ethiopians are of mixed heritage.
    The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
  • When Myanmar gained independence in 1948, the Rohingya were able to apply for identity cards, which offered some rights, and some even served in Parliament.
    Angela Dewan, CNN, 5 Sep. 2017
  • At the Red Spot, voters presented the special identity card used to receive the food boxes and other services and gave their names to workers who were keeping lists of those who had voted.
    New York Times, 20 May 2018
  • This year’s ads must meet new requirements that limit how plans, brokers, and other third parties can use the Medicare logo and images of the Medicare identity card.
    Deb Gordon, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Within 30 minutes of the crash, roadblocks had been set up around the city to check identity cards (which listed people's ethnicity), and to kill those of Tutsi ethnicity on the spot.
    The Week Uk, theweek, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Independent identity cards are required, as is a residence in the same region as the job being offered.
    Emily Wang, Teen Vogue, 27 Feb. 2018

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