Examples of printout in a Sentence
Noun
She gave me a printout of the directions.
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Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
Inside my briefcase was a fat folder that contained all my material takeoffs, the bids from subs, and a dot-matrix printout of a basic spreadsheet showing all of the costs, along with the total cost.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2026
ABC News, 14 Feb. 2026
People seeking to register without either of those forms will get to a point in the process where the form will have to be printed out and mailed in or dropped off.
—Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2026
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Noun
And Tuesday night — which featured Yancy’s team distributing a printout of questions challenging the mayor’s handling of the budget — shows the rift between the two progressives growing.
—Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
Inside my briefcase was a fat folder that contained all my material takeoffs, the bids from subs, and a dot-matrix printout of a basic spreadsheet showing all of the costs, along with the total cost.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2026
Verb
In the weeks that followed, Tonya Miller organized search parties, printed out fliers and held fundraisers to scrape together a $20,000 reward for her mother.
—ABC News, 14 Feb. 2026
People seeking to register without either of those forms will get to a point in the process where the form will have to be printed out and mailed in or dropped off.
—Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2026
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“Printout.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/printout. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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printout
1 of 2 noun
print·out
ˈprint-ˌau̇t 
: a printed record produced by a computer
print out
2 of 2 verb(ˈ)print-ˈau̇t
: to produce a printed record of
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