How to Use microfilm in a Sentence

microfilm

noun

• The Wall Street Journal found the missing page in the microfilm copy of the memo.
  — WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
• Gone are the days of threading, winding and scrolling through reels of microfilm in search of your ancestors.
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Sep. 2021
• Those records are piled in boxes and kept on microfilm at the ATF’s tracing center.
  — Skyler Swisher, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• Wink and nod and wait to slip real intel with microfilm in matchbooks.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
• Lorraine has been sent to Berlin to retrieve a microfilm with a list of foreign agents working in the region.
  — Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 26 July 2017
• The gun-tracing system in the U.S. relies on paper records and even microfilm.
  — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2017
• Lorraine has been sent to Berlin to retrieve microfilm with a list of foreign agents working in the region.
  — Katie Walsh, star-telegram, 26 July 2017
• Desperate to get the microfilm, Joey offers hundreds to find Skip, but Moe won’t say.
  — Mark Jacobson, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
• The results of Week 99, by the way (pdf from what looks like microfilm here), were not especially classic.
  — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2020
• The church purchased copies of the microfilm, and the museum helped the church recruit volunteers to index those names, Gentry says.
  — Allison Keyes, Smithsonian, 8 Feb. 2018
• Farley found the name while looking through microfilm of old newspapers at the library.
  — Longreads, 2 June 2022
• Or his daughter-in-law, who unlocks the door to her newspaper office so Lincoln can check the microfilm?
  — Mameve Medwed, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2019
• By late spring 1942, plans were set in motion to send microfilm men—and one woman—to Stockholm, Lisbon, and other neutral cities.
  — Time, 3 Jan. 2020
• One cart held damp government records and microfilm, waiting to be sorted.
  — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2017
• Each model contains a bit of microfilm printed with all the names of the readers who donated towards their creation.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 31 July 2017
• Each model contains a bit of microfilm printed with all the names of the readers who donated towards their creation.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 31 July 2017
• That much is evident after a recent day downtown with the microfilm machines on the third floor of the Harold Washington Library.
  — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• Depending on the age of the house, this information might be on a computer, paper or microfilm.
  — Gabe Bullard, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• That was a beautiful dream to those of us searching endlessly and sometimes blindly on microfilm.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 8 Oct. 2015
• The editorial openly calling for lynching was torn out of the archives before the paper was transferred to microfilm in the 1930s.
  — Lakshmi Gandhi, NBC News, 30 May 2021
• Patrons can click through cemetery and newspaper records stored on microfilm.
  — Melissa Reinert, Cincinnati.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• The final rolls of microfilm are scanned as the church completes a major digitization effort that began more than 20 years ago.
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Sep. 2021
• Two graduate students — Margaret Strolle and James Byrd — read microfilm to find the material.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
• But the Advertiser archive is still preserved on microfilm in the Honolulu State Library.
  — Maria Bustillos, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2018
• Using old newspaper articles on microfilm, deeds, and other records, the Fellows pieced together portraits of the lives lost.
  — John Hammontree | [e-mail], al.com, 22 July 2019
• Some documents have ink bleeding through from the other side of a page, while others were scanned imperfectly from microfilm, resulting in poor images.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2020
• Anyone who has ever used an old clunky microfilm reader is aware of the often poor and scratched archives from years of use, but the Newspapers.com archives are taken from the original master microfilm, so both print and photos are sharp and clear.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 8 Oct. 2015
• Keith Owens, a preservation lead, operates a reel-to-reel microfilm scanner to digitize records.
  — Megan Greenwell, WIRED, 27 June 2023
• In the second half of the century, entire libraries were transferred to microform, spun on microfilm reels, or served on tiny microfiche platters, while the crumbling originals were thrown away or pulped.
  — Maria Bustillos, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2018
• After receiving multiple tips about such a letter, The Eagle found it during a search of newspaper microfilm.
  — Jonathan Shorman, kansascity, 13 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024