How to Use photocopy in a Sentence

photocopy

1 of 2 noun
  • She made a photocopy of the letter.
  • Have a photocopy of your card or a photo of it on your phone.
    — Madalyn Amato, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Xerox art was big then, so people would come in to make photocopies and plaster them all over.
    — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
  • This was back when writers still sent out photocopies of their work in big, yellow envelopes.
    — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • Some prisoners will only get black-and-white photocopies of their mail.
    — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 20 July 2023
  • People will be required to prove their status with their vaccine card, a photocopy or via an app on their phone.
    — Ashraf Khalil, ajc, 22 Dec. 2021
  • But, overall, the show looks and feels like a slightly sized-down photocopy of the original.
    — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The black-and-white photocopy pops behind an inexpensive crafts-store green mat and black frame.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2022
  • From that day forward, Sofi sent him to school with a photocopy of his passport and visa in his backpack.
    — ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Actually a press release about Yeti genes turned out to be just a grainy photocopy of a gas bill.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2012
  • Everyone should take a photocopy, front and back, of everything in their wallet or purse and keep it in a safe place.
    — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Everyone should make a photocopy, front and back, of everything in their wallet/purse and place it in a safe place.
    — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2021
  • People will be required to prove their status with their vaccination cards, a photocopy or via an app on their phones.
    — Arkansas Online, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Some physicians still require patients to pick up computer disks — or even photocopies — of their records in person.
    — Natasha Singer, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • One of my clips, retrieved from my paper's library as a photocopy, had a word handwritten atop it in the middle of a big white space.
    — The Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The bill would require voters in all states to present valid identification, and those voting by mail would have to send a photocopy.
    — ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The bill would require voters in all states to present valid identification, and those voting by mail would have to send a photocopy.
    — Mary Clare Jalonick, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
  • In fact, only a photocopy of it was later submitted as evidence.
    — Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Pinned to a corkboard in the office is a photocopy of a handwritten letter from Ginsberg.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 23 June 2023
  • Christenson gives you a verbal briefing and a photocopy of a Bulls Island map.
    — John Bordsen, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Also, Reese has attached a photocopy of his vaccination card to his teacher badge.
    — NBC News, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Sashank Pathak owns a photocopy shop in one of the busiest markets of Ranchi, Jharkhand’s capital city.
    — Manish Kumar, Quartz, 17 May 2022
  • The birth certificate can be an original, photocopy or certified copy.
    — Tanya Wildt, Freep.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • There's a reason so many companies will sell you a photocopy of this icon of 1960s performance.
    — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Proof of death includes an original or certified copy of the death certificate or a photocopy of the death certificate.
    — Mark Kantrowitz, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
  • At my urging, Dodek asked Fidelity for a photocopy of the back of the envelope.
    — Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2018
  • The policy will still require mail handlers to open each piece of legal mail in front of the inmate, and the photocopies will be handed directly to them.
    — CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Schools are also advised to make and retain a photocopy of the warrant and obtain the name of the ICE agent.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The men took photocopies of real $50 bills onto stationary paper.
    — Kaylee Remington, cleveland.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Gently roll and insert photocopies into glass vessels, such as bottles, jars, and glasses, using a long, thin tool to adjust them inside.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2023

photocopy

2 of 2 verb
  • Encourage congregants to bring their own or photocopy or project prayers and texts.
    — Paulina Pineda, azcentral, 12 May 2020
  • Ask whether your church can instead photocopy or electronically display or project prayers, songs and texts.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 15 May 2021
  • Besides photocopying his drivers license, the manager told him to call back in a few days to get the bill for the damage.
    — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Now, prisoners receive personal pieces of mail after the staff has photocopied it.
    — Talia Kirkland, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
  • No one disputed that Ellsberg had taken the papers and photocopied them.
    — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2024
  • One time the professor photocopied my paper and handed it out to the class, minus my name, as an exemplary essay.
    — Longreads, 16 June 2018
  • If some are crisper than others, that’s an indication that parts of the document have been photocopied multiple times.
    — Rachel Monroe, The Atlantic, 16 July 2019
  • My father would laboriously photocopy it, deliver it to our neighbors with me.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Some of the papers looked liked they had been repeatedly photocopied and had inconsistent seals and stamps, according to the complaint.
    — Cary Spivak, Journal Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2023
  • In fact, publishers and authors whose books are photocopied or otherwise plagiarized just come to rely on Amazon even more.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, 24 June 2019
  • The prison may open and photocopy incoming mail and share the copies with inmates due to concerns about contraband entering the facility.
    — oregonlive, 28 June 2022
  • Clerks must also photocopy the identification and ask to photograph the filers.
    — Craig R. McCoy, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
  • Everybody was interested in anything that was available—a book being passed around that’s photocopied, a secret concert.
    — Marisa Mazria Katz, The New York Review of Books, 30 May 2020
  • The effect of all these wildly inventive choices is of a splintered consciousness — and of an image that’s been photocopied so many times its pixels have become blobs.
    — Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Burt photocopied a 1971 book of weather records by David Ludlum and set to work updating the numbers.
    — William Langewiesche, The Hive, 22 Aug. 2017
  • After Bornstein failed in several attempts to photocopy the file, one of the men asked for the original copies, which were handed to him, according to the source.
    — Debra Goldschmidt and Jason Hanna, CNN, 2 May 2018
  • Hers is an interdisciplinary art that often juxtaposes scraps of academic text photocopied from books and reordered to give it new meaning.
    — New York Times, 9 Sep. 2019
  • If Newport Aeronautical had the documents, Barazin would photocopy and overnight them to the customers.
    — WIRED, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Newsom allowed reporters to review — but not photocopy — his 2018 tax years at the state Capitol on Friday.
    — Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2020
  • For example, what Xerox is to photocopy industry, Jockey is to underwear market.
    — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 31 July 2019
  • The screener asked what the money was for, photocopied her ID and travel documents and held her luggage until a Pennsylvania state trooper arrived.
    — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Benjy Mason, who worked at Canopy around 2010, remembers having to photocopy driver's licenses and process paper forms.
    — Emma Balter, Chron, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Lawyers for Li’s widow argue Stanford can keep photocopy reprints and scanned files of the diaries, according to a brief filed by attorneys of the law firm Skaggs and Faucette.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Foster cat coordinator Samantha Burgin’s foster puppy has his paws photocopied as a promotion for an upcoming adoption event.
    — Emily Zentner, sacbee, 3 July 2017
  • The company's first logo with Old English type included an image of a pretzel, which was created when an employee took a real, baked pretzel and photocopied it on an office machine.
    — Joy Bauer, Woman's Day, 23 June 2017
  • Meanwhile, the Michigan Secretary of State is encouraging clerks across the state to photocopy an adequate supply of ballots if a shortage appears likely.
    — Mikhayla Dunaj, Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2020
  • Xerox's roots lie in Chester Carlson's invention of xerography, a process that made photocopying on plain paper easier, faster and cheaper than previous methods.
    — Alex Scimecca, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Not just the first-ever series based on characters from Marvel, its cartoons were created by xerography — meaning images were photocopied from the comic books themselves and manipulated to appear fully animated.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024
  • During the 2022 Massachusetts primary, a town-wide ballot shortage in Marblehead forced election officials to photocopy ballots, which could not be run through voting machines and had to be counted by hand.
    — Nicole Moeder, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2022
  • All physical mail is photocopied using a proprietary process to replicate content from its original format to a PDF document, ensuring an almost perfect level of accuracy when being transmitted from one medium to another.
    — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2024

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