How to Use thumb drive in a Sentence

thumb drive

noun
  • The thumb drive with the transcripts was pulled from the jury room.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Dunsford snatched the thumb drive and slept with it under his pillow.
    — David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Delete them all from your home computer, and give the thumb drive to him.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2019
  • But a week after she was fired, Fleishauer found a black thumb drive in her purse.
    — USA Today, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Items will be returned along with a thumb drive of the digital copies.
    — Jill Sell, cleveland.com, 4 Nov. 2017
  • The thumb drive ban was issued two days earlier.
    — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Those are hard to control — much of the software can fit, compressed, on a thumb drive.
    — Michael D. Shear and, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • Those are hard to control -- much of the software can fit, compressed, on a thumb drive.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 22 July 2023
  • That inbox was copied onto a thumb drive, which has disappeared.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The malware could be delivered via a thumb drive or in an email attachment.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The episode — and series — ends with a cliffhanger of sorts as Richard is unable to find the thumb drive.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2019
  • And now there’s a new digital-physical version that will live on a thumb drive.
    — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Claudette clocks and grabs a strange thumb drive that had been inserted into the workstation.
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 4 Sep. 2025
  • For under a hundred bucks, the devices, about the size of a thumb drive, can be purchased online.
    — Mará Rose Williams, kansascity, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Oh, that’s the Silicon Valley movie, the search for the thumb drive.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2019
  • But the boxes were empty and the signatures were delivered in a thumb drive.
    — Bob Fernandez, Philly.com, 27 June 2018
  • Schiff can go to sleep, wake up in the morning and have a thumb drive full of material ripe for processing.
    — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Many journalists like me have had to send out work on thumb drives with passengers flying out of the area by airplane.
    — Fahad Shah / Srinagar, Time, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The thumb drive containing the intel on Hannah's wife-prep school is being worked on.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Now, all the data collected since 1960 will fit on a single thumb drive.
    — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2018
  • The device, which is about the size of a thumb drive, connects to a smartphone app that shows the location of the device on a map.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Your best bet is scanning your paperwork and saving it to the cloud, as well as downloading it onto a thumb drive.
    — Penny Musco, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The thumb drives would beacon back to her Black Hills colleagues and give them access to the prison's systems.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 26 Feb. 2020
  • There’s a whole lot more than just these three drives on sale on Amazon today including thumb drives and a ton of external hard drives.
    — Ian Paul, PCWorld, 26 Sep. 2018
  • Now, thanks to the unexpected discovery, the time capsule of the day has been digitized and lives safely on a thumb drive.
    — Washington Post, 23 July 2021
  • Digital photo packages are $69 and come on a USB thumb drive.
    — Michael Salerno, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
  • The San Francisco police have the contents of his Google account preserved on a thumb drive.
    — New York Times, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The origin story of the thumb drive — as told by the former inmate who came forward to The Times — is just as shocking as the videos on it.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
  • None other than Stefan Thomas, the owner of that same $250 million in bitcoin locked on a thumb drive.
    — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
  • In the car’s glove compartment, Charlie finds a thumb drive and a cell phone that have information (in Greek) about Steve’s crimes.
    — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 15 Nov. 2022

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