How to Use keystroke in a Sentence

keystroke

noun
Definition of keystrokenext
  • Every keystroke brought the 11-year-old closer to his goal: scaling the ranks of a group in the video game Roblox.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 10 June 2021
  • The weather can't ruin your plans, and changing a setup is the work of a few keystrokes.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2018
  • And there were the staffers whose keystrokes on a computer made that happen.
    — Deb Riechmann, chicagotribune.com, 12 Oct. 2019
  • But those videos were there, all the time, ready for any 15-year-old alienated white boy to find with a couple of keystrokes.
    — Bob Moser, New Republic, 21 Aug. 2017
  • The microphone detects the sounds made by your keystrokes.
    — Jordan Wilkerson, Dallas News, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The Russians could follow the keystrokes and see the screens of the employees' computers.
    — Ronald J. Hansen, azcentral, 13 July 2018
  • Each keystroke moved the first wheel a single notch, and, after 26 entries, the second wheel ticked one slot.
    — Michael M. Rosen, National Review, 20 June 2021
  • The computer could be turned off so that the screen was blank, but could be powered back up with just a couple keystrokes.
    — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 18 June 2019
  • With each keystroke, Ohrnberger peeled back the curtain on a game that’s something far more for those in it.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Vissles says the key switches have a 60 million-keystroke lifespan.
    — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 12 Aug. 2021
  • In the modern age, panic can be transmitted with just a few keystrokes.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Like our Twitterer-in-Chief, the Knights are learning to manipulate the news through keystrokes.
    — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • But a trove of games endures online, meaning a basketball fix is mere keystrokes away.
    — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Doing so sends a message to the computer that a keystroke is happening.
    — Michael Dobuski, ABC News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The notebook contained a strange system of numbers and letters which turned out to be computer keystrokes.
    — Thom Patterson, CNN, 19 July 2017
  • The fact that a single keystroke had short-circuited his registration filled Cable with a sense of dread.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 11 May 2020
  • On stage was very little in the beginning, just a silhouette of a woman at a typewriter, a large black screen, and a fit young dancer jerking his limbs to the rhythm of each keystroke.
    — Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The gunshots echoed in quick succession, rapid and metallic, like two keystrokes of a giant typewriter.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 17 June 2018
  • Even in the mammoth Sonata No. 21, Schubert’s final work in the genre, the pianist maintained steely focus and complete command over every keystroke.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2019
  • If found, the removal of the tracking program is generally all that’s needed to ensure that no keystrokes will be recorded from then on.
    — Ken Colburn, azcentral, 7 June 2018
  • Today, arranging words into shapes is a matter of spacing and indenting text in a digital file with a keystroke or the click of a mouse.
    — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
  • This song combines heavenly melodies, keystrokes and bass plucks -- a near-aural equivalent to the pink and white sky Ocean sings about -- in conveying the bliss of youth amongst the pain of losing a childhood friend.
    — Chris Payne, Billboard, 8 July 2017
  • This time, in addition to accusing the students, the experimenter said that all the keystrokes had been recorded on the server and would soon be examined.
    — Douglas Starr, Science | AAAS, 13 June 2019
  • Careful programming was required for user time slices so that each session would not drop keystrokes.
    — Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Plugging a pause into human language is, for the most part, pretty trivial—a matter of taking a breath or a beat, or a keystroke or two that slightly lengthens a page.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 26 May 2021
  • Now, open a document, web page, or other content and copy multiple items using the Copy command or Ctrl + C keystroke.
    — PCMAG, 5 Oct. 2022
  • What if each of those keystrokes could give you a gratifying clicking sensation?
    — Popular Science, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The only sound that can be heard on the 911 call is sobbing in between frantic keystrokes dispatching authorities.
    — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • In my tests, there was a consistent lag — each keystroke took a fraction of a second to register virtually, and the mouse cursor moved sluggishly.
    — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Creating a macro is the process of recording keystrokes and mouse clicks for repetitive tasks, such as creating tables, custom layouts, or inserting formulas and cell widths in a spreadsheet.
    — Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 15 Jan. 2024

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