How to Use flash card in a Sentence

flash card

noun
  • At its core, Quizlet is a flash card app.
    — Jill Duffy, PC Magazine, 17 June 2026
  • Sounds like someone needs those rhyming flash cards after all.
    — Gabriella Paiella, The Cut, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Two groups received either the flash card or the talking kit.
    — Felice J. Freyer, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
  • How to be curious Put down the flash cards and step away from the worksheets.
    — Mary Caldwell, ajc, 29 June 2018
  • This is another way to practice math without worksheets or flash cards.
    — Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 15 June 2018
  • While Tesla got some data, a flash card in the car’s black box has yet to be examined by them.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Flash Cards Drilling through flash cards is the most basic way to study with Quizlet.
    — Jill Duffy, PC Magazine, 17 June 2026
  • Carmella Weeg pushed a purple shopping cart down an aisle filled with glitter glue, stamps and flash cards.
    — Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Many toddlers will be fond of stocking stuffers that engage the senses, such as sensory balls or flash cards.
    — Casey Clark, Parents, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Try good old flash cards Don't overlook the power of reviewing flash cards, says Thieu.
    — Margaret Cirino, NPR, 25 June 2024
  • But don't head to the store to buy flash cards and worksheets, which might squelch your child's natural interest in the subject.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Supermarkets are also a great place to people-watch, and all the products are like language flash cards.
    — Mark Ellwood, chicagotribune.com, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The app had to have an engaging theme and include activities like flash cards and quizzes as well as a way to track daily progress.
    — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2025
  • At one point, Denise found the book and forced Djena to return it, but Djena got hold of it again, and used it to make flash cards.
    — Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • Explicit learning, on the other hand, deals with the conscious learning of facts, such as learning vocabulary off a flash card.
    — Akshay Syal, NBC news, 9 Feb. 2026
  • After all, that's her job right now, a fact that can be weirdly hard to remember in our grow-up-now world of toddler flash cards, pre-pre-preschool, and yes, baby high-heels.
    — Amy Shearn, Redbook, 1 Aug. 2013
  • Another kid might be working on more complex language skills by drilling with flash cards or honing his ability to focus on academic work.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Your Baby Can Read was a series of flash cards, videos and books that purported to teach children from three months to five years to read.
    — Erik Vance, Scientific American, 15 May 2018
  • There is a captivating oddity to how this tastily detestable character speaks, as if her frontal lobe were programmed with grammar and usage flash cards.
    — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2019
  • On a recent Thursday afternoon, a couple of third graders opted for multiplication flash cards.
    — Susan Demar Lafferty, Daily Southtown, 8 May 2018
  • Methods might include using flash cards (physical or digital) to test recall or answering the sample questions at the end of a textbook chapter.
    — John Dunlosky, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2015
  • All this is laid out in a series of four textbooks that are accompanied by boxes of flash cards, published by the Ministry of Education.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Forget flash cards, wall words and kindergarten readiness — Scandinavian parents are keener to have their young children climb trees and dig for earthworms than learn academic facts.
    — Linda Åkeson McGurk, Time, 4 Oct. 2017
  • How companies are adapting Chegg sells textbooks and offers a slate of digital services, such as generating flash cards and practice questions.
    — Ayana Archie, NPR, 6 Aug. 2025
  • With the puzzles and flash cards accompanying the picture book, children ages 1 and older can learn first words and explore animal sounds and names of the adorable illustrations.
    — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 5 June 2019
  • From the mountain of flash cards held up throughout the ceremony to ensure that no word was misspoken or missed, to the discreet marks placed on the floor of the abbey so key members of the congregation knew where to stand.
    — Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2023
  • With schools closed for tens of millions of children across the country, parents began using lesson plans that included flash cards, online learning, dog walks and creativity sessions.
    — Christopher Rugaber, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2020
  • As a fancy baroque piano soundtrack bubbles up, Snoop straps in for his lesson, which begins with Cordoba shuffling through her flash cards and pouring some imaginary tea.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2024
  • One local authority has created playing cards to help people get the hang of sorting — hearts for hazardous waste, diamonds are recyclables — while another has made flash cards for kids.
    — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 29 July 2019
  • The spotter’s job is to identify the most relevant players on every play – mainly tackler and ball carriers – then hold a flash card with the players’ names in case the broadcasters can’t identify them right away.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 11 Aug. 2024

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