Example sentences for: pad

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  • For those who are unfamiliar with computers and the need for a word-processing package, I should explain that when you buy what is fondly call a “personal” computer, you get three pieces of equipment (though they may be combined in some models or makes): a rectangular box with some slots in the front and sockets in the back, a monitor, which is nothing but a small TV set, and a keyboard, which looks like an ordinary typewriter keyboard but, in many models sold today, has a number of additional keys alongside those for the familiar alphanumeric characters: on mine, nestled among some control keys on the right side is what is called a “number pad,” which resembles the key arrangement one sees on a small adding machine or calculator; on the left side is a double bank of five keys marked “F1” through “F10” which, when pressed alone or in combination with another key, perform certain functions, some of which are useful, others of which are evidently thought useful by the manufacturer but which I never use.

  • (And ply--the number of layers of paper in the product--isn't everything, the Envision Preference Ultra is a 3-ply "premium" product, but it still feels like a scouring pad after touching a virgin fiber tissue.)

  • But it is precisely the artless refusal to pad out the psychological drama, coupled with a fastidious attention to the most mundane physical details, that give Eve's Apple its interest.

  • Four years is a long time to provide a crash pad for anyone.

  • Investigators call the ransom note a fake, citing its "intentional" misspellings . Searching the Ramsey home, police found a legal pad on which they believe the note was written.


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