How to Use punch card in a Sentence

punch card

noun

• Ice cream eaters will get a punch card and each card will have 60 punches.
  — oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2023
• Crawl-goers can pick up a punch card at any of the four breweries.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
• Jim had a brief stint in the Army and then punched keys for a few years, back when data were stored on punch cards.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• That love and support goes a lot farther than a yoga punch card right now.
  — Author: Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2021
• On Thursday, the first 100 will get a free punch card to try various Milo's menu items.
  — Kelly Poe, AL.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• She’s got an entire punch card full of red flags, but Marty is already in too deep.
  — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2021
• With time sharing, the programs weren’t printed off on punch cards, they were written and stored on the mainframe.
  — Richard Jensen, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2019
• Season pass punch card tickets are $70, good for any ten films in any series.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 8 May 2023
• There was no software industry to speak of, and some room-sized machines still ran on punch cards.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2018
• By age 12, Mr. Mitnick had figured out how to freely ride the bus using a $15 punch card and blank tickets fished from a dumpster.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
• The eight non-pitching starters for each team were voted in by fans using computer punch cards, the first time since 1957 fans had a vote.
  — Mark Schmetzer, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2019
• Long-term storage was left to mediums like magnetic tape and punch cards.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2019
• The farm, located in New Milford, offers a punch card to residents for $17 and is good for up to 14 punches.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 14 Nov. 2022
• There would’ve been a small station with a keyboard and a very basic monitor, but much of the data for the machine would’ve been stored on punch cards.
  — Mike Murphy, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2019
• Season passes and punch card prices are also an option.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 3 June 2022
• The center offered $10 punch cards for frequent customers.
  — Dennis Pillion, AL.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• There will also be a punch card tracking customer's visits.
  — Michael Walsh, Courant Community, 27 June 2018
• Visit the four taprooms (which are within 0.3 mile of each other) and try each brewery’s beer special; that earns you a punch on a special punch card.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
• As the Pueblo desperately sought to evade capture, crewmen burned punch cards to keep secrets from the enemy, and smoke poured out of the vessel.
  — Richard Miniter, WSJ, 22 May 2018
• Visit the four taprooms (which are within 0.4 mile of each other) between 5 and 9 p.m. and try each brewery’s beer special; that earns you a punch on a special punch card.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
• The cardboard boarding pass is probably the evolutionary remnant of the IBM punch card.
  — New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• Every visitor can get one punch per visit and everyone needs their own punch cards. Fill up one card?
  — oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2023
• In practice, this meant creating vast amounts of data, which had to be sent to computing centers and entered on punch cards.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2017
• The punch cards are gone, but the census today is not so different from its 19th and 20th century predecessors.
  — Andrew Whitby, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
• The first programmable computer—if it were built—would have been a gigantic, mechanical thing clunking along with gears and levers and punch cards.
  — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2015
• This was back when data were manually entered on yellow punch cards.
  — Caroline Beaton, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2017
• The notorious and infamous punch card system, the hanging chad, that was used in many jurisdictions across the country.
  — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2020
• Although there were many different varieties of punch cards from different vendors, the IBM one was the most popular.
  — Eric Spitznagel, Popular Mechanics, 27 Dec. 2019
• The same sort of punch card that fed patterns into a mechanical loom also fed instructions into the programs on the computers.
  — Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
• But the insurance company was having trouble going from punch cards to a computer.
  — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 11 July 2019

Last Updated: 3 Sep 2024