How to Use index card in a Sentence

index card

noun
  • An index card slipped from its fellows and fell to the ground.
    — Nell Freudenberger, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Keep the recipe box full of index cards or Mom's cookbook full of notes.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 29 June 2026
  • Keep the recipe box full of index cards or Mom's cookbook full of notes.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 20 Feb. 2026
  • On the table, lay out index cards, ribbon, and markers.
    — Kylie Petty, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Feb. 2026
  • He was handed a 3×5 index card with the tipster’s name and phone number.
    — Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
  • This simple recipe box is made from bamboo and is spacious enough to hold 4-by-6-inch index cards.
    — Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
  • This simple recipe box is made from bamboo and is spacious enough to hold 4-by-6-inch index cards.
    — Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 26 June 2026
  • This simple recipe box is made from bamboo and is spacious enough to hold 4-by-6-inch index cards.
    — Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Visitors on Thursday can fill out index cards or share their thoughts with a court reporter.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 18 Feb. 2026
  • School officials gathered and answered the questions scribbled on index cards.
    — Jessica Ma, Dallas Morning News, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Otlet first experimented with cutting lines out of books and pasting them onto index cards.
    — Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026
  • In the fall of 2018, Kelsey set up a desk in my small office and began covering the walls with sticky notes and index cards.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • There are index cards arrayed on most horizontal surfaces and some vertical ones—some for his next novel, some for his next movie project for Universal.
    — Darryn King, Vanity Fair, 19 May 2026
  • Starting pitchers come out of games too early, hitters rarely move along runners and outfielders have cheat sheets on index cards to properly position themselves.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
  • But an index card from The Jewish Council in Amsterdam shows that Wolfgang, just 19, was sent to the Westerbork transit camp.
    — Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Constructed from shatter-resistant plastic with adhesive rubber feet to attach to the bottom, the drawers are suitable for organizing just about anything, including cosmetics, snacks, pet food and treats, trinkets, laundry essentials, index cards, and more.
    — Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Constructed from shatter-resistant plastic with adhesive rubber feet to attach to the bottom, the drawers are suitable for organizing just about anything, including cosmetics, snacks, pet food and treats, trinkets, laundry essentials, index cards, and more.
    — Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
  • To accomplish this, Licklider proposed atomizing books into discrete blocks of information — exactly as Otlet had suggested more than half a century before, but now assisted by digital tools rather than index cards.
    — Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Items that would have been up for auction included letters written by prisoners in concentration camps, as well as Gestapo index cards and other perpetrator documents, The Associated Press reported, citing German news agency dpa.
    — Alex Nitzberg, FOXNews.com, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Millions of index cards, once restricted by German privacy laws and requiring a lengthy process to obtain, are now directly searchable online in German media, as of a few months ago, after the US National Archives published the surviving membership card files online.
    — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 28 June 2026

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