How to Use printing press in a Sentence

printing press

noun
  • The printing press didn’t make scribes faster.
    — Alex Israel, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The printing press did not make words less valuable.
    — Sanjay Srivastava, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
  • Ray Dalio still thinks cash is trash as printing presses roll.
    — Lorcan Roche Kelly, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
  • The printing press spread stories.
    — Tom Debley, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • They were tasked with retrofitting the truck to better haul a bulky vintage printing press.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 July 2021
  • In both films, one of the characters is employed at a printing press.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Subhash makes a living selling fish and owns a printing press.
    — Washington Post, 17 June 2021
  • There was tremendous demand for the new software printing press.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Murray said that a problem with the printing press may have led to the carbon dioxide dump.
    — Dallas News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The Internet is the printing press at the speed of fiber optics.
    — Tom Nichols, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Like the invention of the printing press, history is about to be made.
    — Andy Baldwin, Quartz, 1 June 2023
  • It is named for the year that the printing press was invented — and the number of minutes in a day.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • This is one factor thought to have helped the printing press spread so quickly in Europe.
    — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2022
  • How can that be, with Jay Powell’s printing press in overdrive?
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • But soon his ideas were mass-produced on a printing press and spread throughout Germany.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 26 June 2017
  • Codices were first handwritten or copied, then made in multiples when the printing press emerged.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Throughout the ages, people have feared everything from forks to the printing press.
    — Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2020
  • The printing press area extended two floors below street level.
    — Sacbee.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Biden noted that the invention of the printing press had effects that are still felt today.
    — John Harwood, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The visual star of the show was a Goss printing press painted a vibrant yellow.
    — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
  • In a sense, Web3 is as transformative as the printing press once was.
    — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • Its equipment ranges from sewing and quilting machines to a screen printing press and a dyeing station.
    — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 29 June 2025
  • The Confederate printing press broke and took some weeks to get running again.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • There was even a printing press, with which the twelve hundred colonists aboard planned to manage a future busy with contracts and treaties.
    — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2018
  • Like the printing press, the internet and telephones, AI will not be the end of the world.
    — Bars Juhasz, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • That bad idea was to build a show around the 15th-century invention of the printing press.
    — Marley Marius, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Since the printing press and the radio waves, technology in the arts has been at the service of the people.
    — Stephan Rabimov, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Like a printing press and a bus depot, this is a hotel that’s putting out a message and attempting to move people.
    — Noah Lederman, SPIN, 27 June 2022
  • Theatre and books let people to step into the shoes of others, and with the printing press these stories spread widely.
    — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Six hundred years of Gutenberg, and the printing press never made decisions on its own.
    — Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024

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