How to Use photocopy in a Sentence

photocopy

1 of 2 noun

• She made a photocopy of the letter.
• Have a photocopy of your card or a photo of it on your phone.
  — Madalyn Amato, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
• But, overall, the show looks and feels like a slightly sized-down photocopy of the original.
  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2022
• Xerox art was big then, so people would come in to make photocopies and plaster them all over.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
• Sashank Pathak owns a photocopy shop in one of the busiest markets of Ranchi, Jharkhand’s capital city.
  — Manish Kumar, Quartz, 17 May 2022
• Actually a press release about Yeti genes turned out to be just a grainy photocopy of a gas bill.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2012
• Fans must show a CDC vaccination card, a photocopy of the card or a photo of the card on a mobile device.
  — oregonlive, 17 Aug. 2021
• Fans must show a CDC vaccination card, a photocopy of the card or photo of the card on a mobile device.
  — oregonlive, 3 June 2021
• Everyone should make a photocopy, front and back, of everything in their wallet/purse and place it in a safe place.
  — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2021
• Everyone should take a photocopy, front and back, of everything in their wallet or purse and keep it in a safe place.
  — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2021
• The black-and-white photocopy pops behind an inexpensive crafts-store green mat and black frame.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2022
• People will be required to prove their status with their vaccine card, a photocopy or via an app on their phone.
  — Ashraf Khalil, ajc, 22 Dec. 2021
• One of my clips, retrieved from my paper's library as a photocopy, had a word handwritten atop it in the middle of a big white space.
  — The Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
• Pinned to a corkboard in the office is a photocopy of a handwritten letter from Ginsberg.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 23 June 2023
• Some prisoners will only get black-and-white photocopies of their mail.
  — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 20 July 2023
• At my urging, Dodek asked Fidelity for a photocopy of the back of the envelope.
  — Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2018
• There's a reason so many companies will sell you a photocopy of this icon of 1960s performance.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 5 Nov. 2022
• Christenson gives you a verbal briefing and a photocopy of a Bulls Island map.
  — John Bordsen, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2017
• However, in the photocopy, all three rooms were labelled as being 14.13 square metres in size.
  — Ted Chiang, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2023
• Each ten-year-old is equipped with a photocopy from the municipal archives, a map, and a set of highlighters: green for olive trees, red for vineyards, blue for wells, and yellow for lemons.
  — Zoey Poll, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• An electoral official, Saeed Kakei, said that photocopies of the ballots had been made and preserved and could be examined for the recount.
  — New York Times, 21 June 2018
• People will be required to prove their status with their vaccination cards, a photocopy or via an app on their phones.
  — Arkansas Online, 23 Dec. 2021
• Chairs will not have access that allows them to see original early votes or photocopies.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2020
• Some physicians still require patients to pick up computer disks — or even photocopies — of their records in person.
  — Natasha Singer, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
• Only on closer inspection does the viewer note a small photocopy of Bradley’s yearbook photo, high up amid the blackness.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
• Another room features a picture of Franny and the walls and windows are covered with photocopies and Post-It notes, a nod to the evidence walls Carrie built early in the show's run.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2020
• Proof of death includes an original or certified copy of the death certificate or a photocopy of the death certificate.
  — Mark Kantrowitz, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
• Speziali shared a photocopy with the Einstein Papers Project, which published it in a volume of Einstein’s collected papers.
  — Claire Parker, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Nov. 2021
• The few physical copies that exist of Jean Écalle’s magnum opus look like little more than glorified photocopies.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
• There were no movie theaters, bookstores, galleries or photocopy shops, so my entrepreneurial idea, which failed, was to open one, Chelsea Copy.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018

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photocopy

2 of 2 verb

• Mr. Punyet photocopied the return address and wrote to him.
  — Arthur Lubow, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
• Burt photocopied a 1971 book of weather records by David Ludlum and set to work updating the numbers.
  — William Langewiesche, The Hive, 22 Aug. 2017
• Besides photocopying his drivers license, the manager told him to call back in a few days to get the bill for the damage.
  — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2019
• Sure, Charlson said, anyone can photocopy a $20 bill but that doesn’t mean it’s legal money.
  — Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 24 May 2018
• Encourage congregants to bring their own or photocopy or project prayers and texts.
  — Paulina Pineda, azcentral, 12 May 2020
• After Bornstein failed in several attempts to photocopy the file, one of the men asked for the original copies, which were handed to him, according to the source.
  — Debra Goldschmidt and Jason Hanna, CNN, 2 May 2018
• One time the professor photocopied my paper and handed it out to the class, minus my name, as an exemplary essay.
  — Longreads, 16 June 2018
• Newsom allowed reporters to review — but not photocopy — his 2018 tax years at the state Capitol on Friday.
  — Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2020
• If Newport Aeronautical had the documents, Barazin would photocopy and overnight them to the customers.
  — WIRED, 19 Aug. 2022
• Some of the papers looked liked they had been repeatedly photocopied and had inconsistent seals and stamps, according to the complaint.
  — Cary Spivak, Journal Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2023
• Eyes are among the parts of her anatomy that C. Tara Gladden photocopied for an installation that arrays collages under black light.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 July 2019
• If some are crisper than others, that’s an indication that parts of the document have been photocopied multiple times.
  — Rachel Monroe, The Atlantic, 16 July 2019
• Now, prisoners receive personal pieces of mail after the staff has photocopied it.
  — Talia Kirkland, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
• Ask whether your church can instead photocopy or electronically display or project prayers, songs and texts.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 15 May 2021
• The prison may open and photocopy incoming mail and share the copies with inmates due to concerns about contraband entering the facility.
  — oregonlive, 28 June 2022
• Another scenario: If someone were to photocopy their ballot and submit it 10 times, the barcode would ensure that their vote was only counted once.
  — Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Feb. 2022
• In fact, publishers and authors whose books are photocopied or otherwise plagiarized just come to rely on Amazon even more.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, 24 June 2019
• The screener asked what the money was for, photocopied her ID and travel documents and held her luggage until a Pennsylvania state trooper arrived.
  — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020
• Clerks must also photocopy the identification and ask to photograph the filers.
  — Craig R. McCoy, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
• Everybody was interested in anything that was available—a book being passed around that’s photocopied, a secret concert.
  — Marisa Mazria Katz, The New York Review of Books, 30 May 2020
• Benjy Mason, who worked at Canopy around 2010, remembers having to photocopy driver's licenses and process paper forms.
  — Emma Balter, Chron, 8 Nov. 2022
• Meanwhile, the Michigan Secretary of State is encouraging clerks across the state to photocopy an adequate supply of ballots if a shortage appears likely.
  — Mikhayla Dunaj, Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2020
• On the ground outside a boutique hotel whose rooms were named after Hittite kings and Greek goddesses are remnants of previous lives: photocopied notes on gland tumors, a battered jean jacket, a container of baby food.
  — Salwan Georges, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
• My father would laboriously photocopy it, deliver it to our neighbors with me.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 25 Apr. 2018
• The company's first logo with Old English type included an image of a pretzel, which was created when an employee took a real, baked pretzel and photocopied it on an office machine.
  — Joy Bauer, Woman's Day, 23 June 2017
• Hers is an interdisciplinary art that often juxtaposes scraps of academic text photocopied from books and reordered to give it new meaning.
  — New York Times, 9 Sep. 2019
• During the 2022 Massachusetts primary, a town-wide ballot shortage in Marblehead forced election officials to photocopy ballots, which could not be run through voting machines and had to be counted by hand.
  — Nicole Moeder, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2022
• For example, what Xerox is to photocopy industry, Jockey is to underwear market.
  — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 31 July 2019
• Xerox's roots lie in Chester Carlson's invention of xerography, a process that made photocopying on plain paper easier, faster and cheaper than previous methods.
  — Alex Scimecca, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2018
• Foster cat coordinator Samantha Burgin’s foster puppy has his paws photocopied as a promotion for an upcoming adoption event.
  — Emily Zentner, sacbee, 3 July 2017

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