How to Use kilobyte in a Sentence

kilobyte

noun
  • Then, an alert sent to railway operators is mere kilobytes in size.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2024
  • File sizes in the hundreds or thousands of kilobytes usually work.
    — David Staats, idahostatesman, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Images can be compressed into a few kilobytes versus a video that plays at 25 frames per second.
    — Bryan Borzykowski, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The first 8-inch floppies could hold up to 80 kilobytes of information.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The $1,000 price tag includes two identical cards, each of which comes with one kilobyte of storage.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 4 Dec. 2023
  • That same forest, saved at 5 percent quality, now down to about 419 kilobytes.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2025
  • The program weighed in at two kilobytes, four times the size of Mark Lesser’s 511-byte handheld games, and was much more complex.
    — David L. Craddock, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Blaauw explains that the sensor platform features a microprocessor, a radio, and few kilobytes of memory.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 June 2015
  • With the official firmware taking up most of the radio’s 64 kilobytes of flash memory, such mods have to fit into less than 3 KB.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Even by the standards of the 1980s, this is small, as some C64 titles spanned hundreds of kilobytes by loading data in chunks from disk or tape.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2025
  • One county in Florida relies on a slow, outdated, and hard-to-find analog modem that transmit voting results at a snail’s pace of a few kilobytes per second.
    — Kim Zetter, WIRED, 15 Sep. 2015
  • Modems operated at speeds measured in kilobytes per second, making the transfer of large, uncompressed images impractical.
    — Victor Shilo, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • For the next few years, as the World Wide Web emerged, websites were measured in kilobytes, images were small and compressed, and video was essentially impossible.
    — ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The Apollo lunar landing module’s computer only had about 4 kilobytes of RAM.
    — Margaret Landis, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Facebook's popular open source React library for building user interfaces, for example, weighs in at 100 kilobytes.
    — Klint Finley, Wired, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Today, the company announced the availability of wallet-sized cards that store one kilobyte of text data each—the equivalent of a short email—using DNA as the storage medium.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The web app for Starbucks, for example, takes up just 429 kilobytes of storage on my phone — or less than 1 percent of the storage taken by the standard Starbucks Android app.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
  • Facebook and Google aren’t the only companies hoovering up every kilobyte of our digital lives—our late-night shopping habits, social-media posts, travel plans, and celebrity obsessions—and turning that personal data into dollar signs.
    — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 20 June 2017
  • Its syntactical restrictions meant the compiler (which translates the syntax to machine-readable instructions) is only 1 kilobyte, compared to C++ compilers, which were generally hundreds of kilobytes.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Sep. 2025
  • How to Describe the World with a Computer The computer onboard Apollo 11’s lunar module had about a mere 74 kilobytes of storage in the form of read-only memory (ROM).
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 12 May 2026
  • However, the Atmel AVR chips that power most Arduino microcontrollers are too limited for word processing; for example, the Arduino Uno can barely fit two paragraphs of text in its 2-kilobyte RAM.
    — Lucian Copeland, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2019

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