How to Use typist in a Sentence

typist

noun
  • His father ran a men’s clothing store, his mother worked as a typist.
    — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 26 June 2018
  • And even thumb typists will appreciate an assist from the touch screen from time to time.
    — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 4 May 2017
  • Some seemed to think the museum piece was the typist, not the typewriter.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2018
  • This middle-of-the-road approach makes Browns viable for both typists and gamers.
    — Ian Paul, PCWorld, 21 Mar. 2018
  • For instance, maybe a slow typist is suddenly filling out forms at lightning speed.
    — Ranjita Iyer, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The board will continue this practice until contracts for new hardware and a live typist are signed.
    — Daily Pilot, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Even as disembodied typists, the bots can beguile.
    — Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Not only that, the speech-recognition engine made fewer errors than the typists.
    — David Pierce, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2018
  • She was educated at a convent before leaving school at 15 to work as a clerk and typist.
    — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The wardrobe of a city that once was, filling skyscraper boardrooms and ballrooms, typist pools and art collectives, and may never be again.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The state intended to call as a witness Julia Schmitt, a 17-year-old typist.
    — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The original layout was alphabetical, which caused jams as typists gained speed.
    — Andrew Niemchick Britannica Editors June 17, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 June 2026
  • Both of Vai’s hands tapping up and down the fretboard called to mind those of a typist furiously hammering out a manuscript.
    — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2024
  • When Lee’s lawyer father gave her a typewriter, the aspiring writers would take turns being typists, Vig says.
    — Michelle Matthews | [email protected], al, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The LEDs are south facing which illuminate the keyboard better from the typist’s point of view.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 1 May 2022
  • In 1933, a Nazi friend helped her get hired as a typist in the news department of Berlin’s state radio station.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017
  • Gamers can turn it up to allow for quick trigger usage, but typists can tune it down for more reliable typing with fewer accidental mistakes.
    — Alex Harrington, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The arrival of the computer, for example, wiped out millions of positions as secretaries and typists.
    — Melia Russell, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2019
  • The typist used one hand to rotate the cylindrical grid and the other hand to move a cursor left and right to indicate one of the 4,356 cells.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2024
  • His father, an electrician, and his mother, a typist, took him as a child to country music bars, where he was captivated by the steel guitar players.
    — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Editors’ Picks After high school, Jeannette worked as a typist and a waitress in her father’s restaurant.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 7 June 2024
  • Marsha Moran, Fisher’s former typist, detailed the unusual way she was interviewed for the job.
    — Lisa Amand, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Escola dropped out and worked odd jobs as a typist, a kid’s-party entertainer, and a bookseller in Manhattan.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Davis, a supply typist, knew Doolittle at Kelly in the early 1920s, Hussey said.
    — From Express-News Archives, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Veronica finds a job as a typist working, unwittingly, for a group with anti-Semitic and pro-Hitler sentiments.
    — Sun Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Warhol then had the recordings transcribed by young female typists at his renowned midtown Factory—who, needless to add, were not credited when the book was published.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 14 July 2023
  • Day-Lewis often acted out dialogue, as speed typist Ronan took everything down on the computer.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2025
  • His mother retired as a clerk typist at the Massapequa Water District.
    — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Black leggings and a purple sweater, underwear and socks — something to wear the next day at her job as a typist clerk for Los Angeles County.
    — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Photocopiers and printers reduce the burden of the typist but create the need to self-prepare, collate, and distribute the reports in addition to writing them.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2023

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