How to Use thumb drive in a Sentence

thumb drive

noun

• The thumb drive with the transcripts was pulled from the jury room.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2022
• Oh, that’s the Silicon Valley movie, the search for the thumb drive.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• Delete them all from your home computer, and give the thumb drive to him.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2019
• Dunsford snatched the thumb drive and slept with it under his pillow.
  — David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
• But a week after she was fired, Fleishauer found a black thumb drive in her purse.
  — USA Today, 16 Oct. 2020
• The episode — and series — ends with a cliffhanger of sorts as Richard is unable to find the thumb drive.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• Send in an email to [e-mail] by Oct. 24, or submit with your cookies on a thumb drive.
  — Nancy Stohs, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Sep. 2019
• Those are hard to control — much of the software can fit, compressed, on a thumb drive.
  — Michael D. Shear and, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• Those are hard to control -- much of the software can fit, compressed, on a thumb drive.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 22 July 2023
• Send in an email to [e-mail] by Oct. 26, or submit with your cookies on a CD or thumb drive.
  — Nancy Stohs, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2017
• Items will be returned along with a thumb drive of the digital copies.
  — Jill Sell, cleveland.com, 4 Nov. 2017
• The thumb drives would beacon back to her Black Hills colleagues and give them access to the prison's systems.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 26 Feb. 2020
• For under a hundred bucks, the devices, about the size of a thumb drive, can be purchased online.
  — Mará Rose Williams, kansascity, 12 Oct. 2017
• The origin story of the thumb drive — as told by the former inmate who came forward to The Times — is just as shocking as the videos on it.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
• Now, all the data collected since 1960 will fit on a single thumb drive.
  — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2018
• The thumb drive containing the intel on Hannah's wife-prep school is being worked on.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2022
• But the boxes were empty and the signatures were delivered in a thumb drive.
  — Bob Fernandez, Philly.com, 27 June 2018
• None other than Stefan Thomas, the owner of that same $250 million in bitcoin locked on a thumb drive.
  — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
• Detectives also found several SD cards and thumb drives in the bedroom that held videos of Keller and the 14-year-old.
  — Sara Nealeigh, miamiherald, 16 May 2018
• Schiff can go to sleep, wake up in the morning and have a thumb drive full of material ripe for processing.
  — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• The San Francisco police have the contents of his Google account preserved on a thumb drive.
  — New York Times, 21 Aug. 2022
• The malware could be delivered via a thumb drive or in an email attachment.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2020
• Designed to look like USB thumb drives, they can be charged on laptop computers.
  — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• In the car’s glove compartment, Charlie finds a thumb drive and a cell phone that have information (in Greek) about Steve’s crimes.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 15 Nov. 2022
• Digital photo packages are $69 and come on a USB thumb drive.
  — Michael Salerno, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
• Many journalists like me have had to send out work on thumb drives with passengers flying out of the area by airplane.
  — Fahad Shah / Srinagar, Time, 7 Aug. 2019
• That inbox was copied onto a thumb drive, which has disappeared.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• Help your loved one stream their favorite Hulu shows with ease this holiday season and gift them the Roku Streaming Stick+, which is about the size of a thumb drive.
  — Nicole Saunders, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2020
• An acquaintance in Brooklyn, who had the whole season on a thumb drive, brought a group together to watch one or two episodes on New Year’s Eve.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2018
• Your best bet is scanning your paperwork and saving it to the cloud, as well as downloading it onto a thumb drive.
  — Penny Musco, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Oct 2024