How to Use punch card in a Sentence

punch card

noun
  • Have your punch card stamped at each stop and indulge.
    — News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • And for those who are much younger, a little bit about punch cards.
    — Laura Isensee, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2025
  • So this is a rare chance to knock one more format off your punch card.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
  • Crawl-goers can pick up a punch card at any of the four breweries.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Ice cream eaters will get a punch card and each card will have 60 punches.
    — oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2023
  • That love and support goes a lot farther than a yoga punch card right now.
    — Author: Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2021
  • It would be programmed by punch cards, like the industrial looms of the time.
    — Charlie Fink, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Long-term storage was left to mediums like magnetic tape and punch cards.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Jim had a brief stint in the Army and then punched keys for a few years, back when data were stored on punch cards.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
  • Season pass punch card tickets are $70, good for any ten films in any series.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 8 May 2023
  • There was no software industry to speak of, and some room-sized machines still ran on punch cards.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2018
  • In an era when data had to be stored on punch cards, this was almost impossible.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The event has free attendance, but beer punch cards can be purchased for those ages 21 and older.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2026
  • With time sharing, the programs weren’t printed off on punch cards, they were written and stored on the mainframe.
    — Richard Jensen, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2019
  • This was back when data were manually entered on yellow punch cards.
    — Caroline Beaton, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Cost is $5 for game punch card and $5 for pictures with the Easter Bunny.
    — Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
  • But what allegiance to a brand can do for consumers looks different today from the simple punch card.
    — Whizy Kim, Vox, 9 June 2024
  • Content creator @karesdiary, who's based on Japan, also shared her punch cards, making six in total.
    — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
  • In practice, this meant creating vast amounts of data, which had to be sent to computing centers and entered on punch cards.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2017
  • There would’ve been a small station with a keyboard and a very basic monitor, but much of the data for the machine would’ve been stored on punch cards.
    — Mike Murphy, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2019
  • On Thursday, the first 100 will get a free punch card to try various Milo's menu items.
    — Kelly Poe, AL.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • This isn’t technically a punch card, but, regardless, it will never get used correctly.
    — Caroline Cotter, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
  • As part of the promotion, customers can request a punch card at any participating restaurant.
    — Eva Remijan-Toba, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • But the insurance company was having trouble going from punch cards to a computer.
    — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 11 July 2019
  • The eight non-pitching starters for each team were voted in by fans using computer punch cards, the first time since 1957 fans had a vote.
    — Mark Schmetzer, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2019
  • Both programs feature an easy-to-use app where members can access exclusive deals, fuel discounts, freebies, punch cards, and more.
    — Outside Online, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Admission includes punch cards for 2 to 16 samples, depending on the ticket and beer type.
    — Erin Alberty, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The first programmable computer—if it were built—would have been a gigantic, mechanical thing clunking along with gears and levers and punch cards.
    — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2015
  • Visit six or more of the museums located in Clayton County and have a punch card stamped to be in a drawing for a prize.
    — Des Moines Register, 20 June 2026
  • As the Pueblo desperately sought to evade capture, crewmen burned punch cards to keep secrets from the enemy, and smoke poured out of the vessel.
    — Richard Miniter, WSJ, 22 May 2018

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