How to Use word processor in a Sentence

word processor

noun
  • At work she sits in front of her word processor all day.
  • She closed down her word processor and opened her e-mail program.
  • Type it into your word processor and watch your spellchecker erupt in protest.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 16 June 2024
  • Click this when typing an email or in a word processor and begin speaking.
    — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Think dishwasher, on the one hand, or word processor, on the other.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • This word processor is beloved by writers because it was created with the creative process in mind.
    — Greta Good, Chron, 5 May 2021
  • Your laptop battery will last much longer in programs with little drain on system resources, such as a word processor.
    — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2018
  • McPhee has never used a traditional word processor in his life.
    — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
  • To get started, any word processor or text editor is sufficient.
    — Stacy S. Kim, Wired, 11 Jan. 2022
  • This is as essential a piece of Mac software as a word processor or a photo-editor.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • But everything from the word processor this text was written in to the CPU that ran it is decades old.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 5 July 2023
  • Submissions must be the original work of the writer and be written using a word processor.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2019
  • So many of my contemporaries went to New York and became bartenders or word processors.
    — Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 15 May 2018
  • This is more of a fix for files that won’t open in your favorite image editor or word processor, but will open in an alternative program.
    — David Nield, Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2021
  • When Microsoft came up with a word processor everyone who was in the typewriter business lost their job.
    — NBC News, 15 Dec. 2019
  • Large language models are being added to search engines and e-commerce sites, and into word processors and spreadsheet software.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 17 June 2023
  • Building a genome from scratch means that software tools similar to word processors can be used to easily search and replace strings of letters, or cut and paste code blocks.
    — Big Think, 20 Oct. 2025
  • But many writers loved and still love WordStar, a word processor notably good for actual writing.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2024
  • With some modifications, Crispr can be used to cut and paste pieces of DNA almost like a word processor.
    — Jennifer Kahn, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Google is bringing a new feature to its online word processor with the introduction of Google Docs style suggestions.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The great essay that was turned in for a college writing class assignment may not actually be from a student laboring to craft sentences for hours on a word processor.
    — Victor R. Lee, Fortune, 1 May 2023
  • The app and browser extension works across programs and platforms, pointing out your split infinitives in email, word processors, websites or on social media.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2018
  • His dominance of compression, word processors and spreadsheets forced others to play in markets away from Microsoft.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 6 May 2018
  • The app and browser extension works across programs and platforms, pointing out your split infinitives in emails, word processors, websites, or on social media.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2020
  • When the macOS version gets a similar feature, then Pages will be a lot more usable as a word processor for long documents.
    — Edward Mendelson, PCMAG, 11 Apr. 2024
  • In other cases, the official user’s guides that came with, say, photo-editing software or a word processor were bad enough that people would pay extra for a better version.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 June 2024
  • The free version allows for up to 300 minutes of recordings and everything is saved to a transcript for easy transfer to other programs, such as a word processor.
    — Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2022
  • There was this long history of the first word processor that got traction was WordPerfect, and it got killed by Microsoft Word.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 18 May 2021
  • Microsoft is no longer updating WordPad and plans to remove the word processor from a future release of Windows.
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Engelhardt probably used a word processor to write his essay in 1991, but the experience would have been quiet and solitary.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025

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