Sentence examples for through a reader from inspiring English sources

Riders can slide their Visa, MasterCard or American Express cards through a reader near the back seat.

(Swiping the card through a reader, an innovation several years old, is apparently too much of an impediment).

He descended into the subway station at 23rd Street and Seventh Avenue and swiped the card through a reader, which indicated that the card had $3 on it.

I learned about it only through a reader who had read of it at www.justadventure.com, a site specializing in adventure games.

"Using the Comdot code is equivalent to swiping your card through a reader, but it's online," said Alon Atsmon, the founder and chief executive of ComSense.

The idea behind smart cards, like the Blue card that American Express introduced last year and the new Visa cards, is that consumers can run them through a reader attached to a computer, just as a store clerk would.

We thoroughly enjoy marrying a band and a reader through a screen.

Its M.O. is to march a reader through a quick summary of some noteworthy event -- Ruby Ridge, say -- then ladle on the analysis.

The technique gracefully waltzes a reader through the novel's more violent peaks and turns while undergirding one of its main assertions: the interrelatedness of the characters' destinies.

He asked the machine designer about the details of running punch cards through a card reader.

The new keys would be plastic, with a magnetic strip swiped through a card reader on the door.