How to Use QWERTY in a Sentence

QWERTY

noun
  • The layout is based on the standard QWERTY layout we’re used to, but some of the keys, like the space bar, are altered.
    — PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Students arrived for class on a recent analog day to find typewriters at the desks, some with German and some QWERTY keyboards.
    — ABC News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The researchers say the QWERTY keyboard system is more successful than the version that decoded mental handwriting.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2026
  • All three were pre-built, packaged in desktop enclosures with QWERTY keyboards, and included just 4K of RAM.
    — Jamie Lendino, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The festival celebrates the Milwaukee origins of the universal, yet inefficient QWERTY keyboard in worldwide use.
    — Angelika Ytuarte, jsonline.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The Stevens researchers conducted 5,000 key-entry tests on three different keypads—a detachable ATM pad, a keypad on ATM machine, and a QWERTY keyboard.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 July 2016

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