How to Use megabyte in a Sentence

megabyte

noun

• The CD has a storage capacity of 800 megabytes.
• To be sure, the phone’s 4G speed was still mighty fast, up to 117 megabytes.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• Customers get the first 100 megabytes of shared data free each month.
  — Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2017
• In 1995 Niklaus Wirth lamented that software had grown to megabytes in size.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Feb. 2024
• Podcasts don’t take as much space as video, but those megabytes do add up.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2017
• And the optical nerve is about 20 megabytes per second.
  — TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
• Photos should be at least 1 megabyte; 5MB is ideal, but more than 10MB is too large.
  — Catharine Hamm, latimes.com, 16 May 2018
• Not all that long ago, a complex game or software program fit on a 1.4 megabyte floppy disk.
  — Klint Finley, Wired, 4 Apr. 2020
• Each has a central region of 48 megabytes of cache memory.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2024
• The drive offers read speeds up to 500 megabytes per second, which Team Group says is four times faster than a traditional hard drive.
  — Ian Paul, PCWorld, 17 May 2018
• In the 1980s, public keys based on lattices were too long, requiring megabytes of data to transmit.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2015
• The Commission's price caps started at €0.90 per megabyte, and graded downwards each year.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 24 June 2021
• Then the two megabyte blocksize increase would go into effect three months after that.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2017
• For example, a device with a write speed of 64 MBps can record 64 megabytes of data every second.
  — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
• These signatures aren't counted against that one-megabyte block-size limit, so this is a de facto block-size increase.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2018
• Manufacturers usually talk about the read and write speeds of hard drives and describe them in megabytes per second (MBps).
  — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
• Android Go is being designed for O phones with one gigabyte or less of memory, down to 512 megabytes.
  — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 19 May 2017
• When thousands of ravenous customers all crash a website, even the smallest fraction of megabyte speed can make the difference.
  — Jake Woolf, GQ, 10 Apr. 2018
• When thousands of ravenous customers all crash a website, even the smallest fraction of megabyte speed can make the difference.
  — Jake Woolf, GQ, 20 June 2017
• Its file bundle is about half a megabyte, adding to the data transfer load and using a high proportion of the browser’s resources for processing.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2023
• Now the Fish deploys its sonar arrays and begins absorbing and transmitting megabytes of the most rarefied knowledge.
  — Bucky McMahon, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2015
• Emirates passengers on most flights get up to 20 megabytes within two hours and can use the connection to send messages through social networks.
  — Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
• Especially in rural areas, about 10 to 12 megabytes will be an entire city.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2017
• This set of features is mostly meant for the developing world, where data is more expensive, limited, and pre-paid by the megabyte.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2018
• Data usage for streaming music depends on the audio fidelity and service, but plan to use at least 51 megabytes an hour.
  — J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
• Ushr makes the Super Cruise system’s maps—terabytes of map data boiled down to a few hundred megabytes of relevant route information.
  — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
• The government thinks the cost of internet per megabyte will fall by half almost immediately.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
• Many gallons of ink (and megabytes of electronic text) have been devoted to explaining the surprise victory of Donald Trump.
  — James Shanahan, Scientific American, 10 June 2017
• This probability assessment is largely based on the transfer speeds of megabytes of DNC data.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 11 Dec. 2017
• An average photo takes up five megabytes, according to Samsung.
  — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024