How to Use microfiche in a Sentence

microfiche

noun
  • He looked at microfiches of old magazines.
  • Every issue of the magazine is available on microfiche.
  • Of course, considering the history these microfiche records were not easy to work through.
    Amber Love Bond, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The largest pieces of machinery are two Reagan-era microfiche readers.
    Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Anderson won her second straight slopestyle gold medal last week with an efficient but wind-hampered run that came straight from the days of microfiche.
    Eddie Pells, The Seattle Times, 18 Feb. 2018
  • Wells spent hours upon hours at Houston’s downtown library scanning shelves and scrolling through microfiche for the back story on the region.
    Yvette Orozco, Houston Chronicle, 18 July 2019
  • Investigators had to dig up case files from the city archives and track down copies of police reports on microfiche at 1 Police Plaza.
    Alan Feuer, New York Times, 1 May 2016
  • Mark Amundson looks at a microfiche machine at police headquarters in New York City.
    Alexandra Wolfe, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2018
  • Brick, in full beard and mustache, becomes the author of a wildly successful book series about a quirky kid and his magical microfiche machine.
    Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 22 May 2018
  • The street-naming committee sifted through microfiche at libraries to find relatives, but did not always succeed in doing so.
    Susan Christian Goulding, Orange County Register, 19 Apr. 2017
  • In the second half of the century, entire libraries were transferred to microform, spun on microfilm reels, or served on tiny microfiche platters, while the crumbling originals were thrown away or pulped.
    Maria Bustillos, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Using original-source material is important to genealogy, and those sources are frequently recorded on microfilm and microfiche.
    The Root, 19 May 2017

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