How to Use punch card in a Sentence

punch card

noun
Definition of punch cardnext
  • 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
  • It would be programmed by punch cards, like the industrial looms of the time.
    — Charlie Fink, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
  • 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 | [email protected], 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
  • But what allegiance to a brand can do for consumers looks different today from the simple punch card.
    — Whizy Kim, Vox, 9 June 2024
  • 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

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