How to Use typist in a Sentence

typist

noun

• Some seemed to think the museum piece was the typist, not the typewriter.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2018
• This middle-of-the-road approach makes Browns viable for both typists and gamers.
  — Ian Paul, PCWorld, 21 Mar. 2018
• In 1933, a Nazi friend helped her get hired as a typist in the news department of Berlin’s state radio station.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017
• In 1933, a Nazi friend helped her get hired as a typist in the news department of Berlin’s state radio station.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017
• The state intended to call as a witness Julia Schmitt, a 17-year-old typist.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 7 Jan. 2022
• The famed Golden Girls star was a typist and truck driver in the Marine Corps for two years beginning in 1943.
  — Alexis Chestnov, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2022
• And even thumb typists will appreciate an assist from the touch screen from time to time.
  — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 4 May 2017
• His father ran a men’s clothing store, his mother worked as a typist.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 26 June 2018
• Davis, a supply typist, knew Doolittle at Kelly in the early 1920s, Hussey said.
  — From Express-News Archives, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2018
• The LEDs are south facing which illuminate the keyboard better from the typist’s point of view.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 1 May 2022
• The wardrobe of a city that once was, filling skyscraper boardrooms and ballrooms, typist pools and art collectives, and may never be again.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
• The board will continue this practice until contracts for new hardware and a live typist are signed.
  — Daily Pilot, 15 Aug. 2019
• She was educated at a convent before leaving school at 15 to work as a clerk and typist.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021
• Like Edward Dolman at Christie's, Ruprecht was a lifer who had ascended from the bottom of the auction house (in his case, a summer job as a typist).
  — Vicky Ward, Town & Country, 4 Mar. 2015
• Not only that, the speech-recognition engine made fewer errors than the typists.
  — David Pierce, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2018
• Cherry Reds also don't make much sound, which may bother typists who are used to at least some clickety-clack even with rubber-domed keyboards.
  — Ian Paul, PCWorld, 12 Apr. 2018
• When Lee’s lawyer father gave her a typewriter, the aspiring writers would take turns being typists, Vig says.
  — Michelle Matthews | [e-mail], al, 27 Aug. 2019
• The DataPen from Storm Primax is a handheld personal text scanner that the company says can read text about 10 to 20 times faster than your average typist.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 June 1996
• Warhol then had the recordings transcribed by young female typists at his renowned midtown Factory—who, needless to add, were not credited when the book was published.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 14 July 2023
• Marsha Moran, Fisher’s former typist, detailed the unusual way she was interviewed for the job.
  — Lisa Amand, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2022
• Photocopiers and printers reduce the burden of the typist but create the need to self-prepare, collate, and distribute the reports in addition to writing them.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2023
• The keys are arranged so as to prevent awkward key combinations and minimize strain on the hand; the world's fastest English language typist until 2009 set her record on a Dvorak.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2011
• His father, an electrician, and his mother, a typist, took him as a child to country music bars, where he was captivated by the steel guitar players.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2021
• Veronica finds a job as a typist working, unwittingly, for a group with anti-Semitic and pro-Hitler sentiments.
  — Sun Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2022
• The arrival of the computer, for example, wiped out millions of positions as secretaries and typists.
  — Melia Russell, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2019
• There’s a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Feb. 2020
• His mother retired as a clerk typist at the Massapequa Water District.
  — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2019
• Foremost among these hustlers is his roommate, Gregory, a Haitian hunk who makes rent by temping (as a typist) and topping (white closet cases who pay for his discretion).
  — Daniel Nieh, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2022
• But perhaps the greatest tribute to the uses and abuses of critical myopia comes from Gina James, Pauline Kael’s daughter (and assistant, driver, typist).
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist or auctioneer.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024