How to Use keypad in a Sentence

keypad

noun
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  • The initial effort came in the form of a garage with glass doors and a keypad.
    — Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune, 2 June 2021
  • The volume can be adjusted on the keypad or in the app.
    — PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2024
  • But the Courant found the bottom-row of buttons on the kiosks’ keypads are about 50 inches from the ground.
    — Vinny Vella, Courant Community, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The keypad was broken, and all attempts to type in the code were fruitless.
    — Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Videos showed the men using a keypad to go inside a locked room.
    — Jeremy Gorner and Elyssa Cherney, miamiherald, 30 Apr. 2018
  • With Jump, riders check out a bike using an app and a keypad on the back wheel.
    — New York Times, 3 July 2018
  • Freddie will then ask for your zip code. Type it in on your keypad.
    — Ebony Bellamy, Teen Vogue, 25 Mar. 2018
  • But tapping the keypad produced light taps at the tips of my fingers.
    — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Pull at the edges of the keypad before entering your PIN.
    — Dalia Faheid, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The entry sensors have a 10-year battery life, the others last 3-5 years and the keypad lasts the better part of a year.
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 3 July 2021
  • The waitress proceeded to lead them to a secret room with a keypad lock called The Rhum Room.
    — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Some skimmers can also record the user's PIN that's typed on the keypad.
    — Littice Bacon-Blood, NOLA.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The answer could be to get a keyboard with a numeric keypad.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • In the video, the man, using a keypad, tried unsuccessfully to open the bay door to JCCM.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 3 July 2020
  • The IglooHome smart mortise lock combines those with a keypad and lever, and comes with hotel-like access fobs for those who don’t want to use the app.
    — Joshua Fruhlinger, WSJ, 11 July 2018
  • Police said small plastic pieces that have a pinhole near the keypad could be a camera.
    — Deborah Kadin, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • There’s even a key fob available so that the system can be turned on and off without needing to use the system’s keypad.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2021
  • The Lock Bolt can be unlocked three ways — by inputting a code on the backlit keypad, by your fingerprint or in the Wyze app.
    — Dallas News, 19 May 2022
  • Swift also punches his Feb. birth date, the 21st, into a keypad.
    — Allison Stubblebine, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Colorful blooms also distract the eye from the high-tech keypad over the door handle.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 5 May 2023
  • When using your card, cover the keypad with your body or hand to stop others from seeing your PIN.
    — Aron Solomon, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
  • The kit comes with the central hub—the Wyze Sense Hub—which is also the alarm siren, a keypad, one motion sensor, and two entry sensors.
    — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Simply press your thumb to the biometric-enabled keypad and the door unlocks.
    — Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2022
  • The Encode Plus comes with a beefy keypad, which is user-friendly if not the sleekest-looking.
    — Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2022
  • Employees had to use a keypad to open doors around the building so managers could trace their movements.
    — Mark Maremont, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2021
  • There’s also an option to use a Braille keypad, touchscreen or sip-and-puff device.
    — Marissa Evans, Star Tribune, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Punch in your destination airport on the keypad, and the map displays helpful route guidance to point you the way.
    — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 18 May 2017
  • But which emoji appear on the major keypads: That is left to the whims of the Sanhedrin of emoji—the Unicode Consortium.
    — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 28 June 2018
  • These tiny details could signal the presence of a keypad overlay or other skimming device.
    — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The control panel includes a Stream Deck-like keypad and a dialpad that has an analog dial and plenty of buttons to speed up creative tasks.
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 24 Sep. 2024

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