How to Use microfilm in a Sentence

microfilm

noun
  • All the databases are easy to use and appear to come from the same microfilm sources.
    — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Wink and nod and wait to slip real intel with microfilm in matchbooks.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Gone are the days of threading, winding and scrolling through reels of microfilm in search of your ancestors.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The librarian sat me in front of a microfilm reader and brought out roll after roll of film.
    — Eugene Robinson, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2026
  • One cart held damp government records and microfilm, waiting to be sorted.
    — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Patrons can click through cemetery and newspaper records stored on microfilm.
    — Melissa Reinert, Cincinnati.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Slowly, more records were digitized, or at least preserved on microfilm.
    — Eugene Robinson, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Farley found the name while looking through microfilm of old newspapers at the library.
    — Longreads, 2 June 2022
  • The Wall Street Journal found the missing page in the microfilm copy of the memo.
    — WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
  • Lorraine has been sent to Berlin to retrieve a microfilm with a list of foreign agents working in the region.
    — Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 26 July 2017
  • Lorraine has been sent to Berlin to retrieve microfilm with a list of foreign agents working in the region.
    — Katie Walsh, star-telegram, 26 July 2017
  • Those records are piled in boxes and kept on microfilm at the ATF’s tracing center.
    — Skyler Swisher, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • That was a beautiful dream to those of us searching endlessly and sometimes blindly on microfilm.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 8 Oct. 2015
  • Or his daughter-in-law, who unlocks the door to her newspaper office so Lincoln can check the microfilm?
    — Mameve Medwed, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2019
  • Each model contains a bit of microfilm printed with all the names of the readers who donated towards their creation.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 31 July 2017
  • Depending on the age of the house, this information might be on a computer, paper or microfilm.
    — Gabe Bullard, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Desperate to get the microfilm, Joey offers hundreds to find Skip, but Moe won’t say.
    — Mark Jacobson, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The results of Week 99, by the way (pdf from what looks like microfilm here), were not especially classic.
    — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Then some wise librarians put the pages on microfilm, which is easier to mail out to be scanned than the original brittle papers.
    — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The church purchased copies of the microfilm, and the museum helped the church recruit volunteers to index those names, Gentry says.
    — Allison Keyes, Smithsonian, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Materials of all kinds, including handwritten and typewritten pages and microfilm, are kept in neat rows of archival boxes, some stacked six shelves high.
    — Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The final rolls of microfilm are scanned as the church completes a major digitization effort that began more than 20 years ago.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Some documents have ink bleeding through from the other side of a page, while others were scanned imperfectly from microfilm, resulting in poor images.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Keith Owens, a preservation lead, operates a reel-to-reel microfilm scanner to digitize records.
    — Megan Greenwell, WIRED, 27 June 2023
  • Unbeknownst to him, Skip has pilfered a piece of microfilm that contains a scientific formula.
    — Mark Jacobson, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Using old newspaper articles on microfilm, deeds, and other records, the Fellows pieced together portraits of the lives lost.
    — John Hammontree | [email protected], al.com, 22 July 2019
  • Others need help reading maps, navigating microfilm or requesting books to be delivered to other branches.
    — Dallas Morning News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • That was my pre-internet encyclopedia, going through microfilms and doing research.
    — Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026
  • That much is evident after a recent day downtown with the microfilm machines on the third floor of the Harold Washington Library.
    — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2019
  • After receiving multiple tips about such a letter, The Eagle found it during a search of newspaper microfilm.
    — Jonathan Shorman, kansascity, 13 Oct. 2017

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