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339 examples of Punch in a sentence

And so a punch card can hold about 80 characters, and you can fit about 2,000 or so cards into a box, and you put them in, say, my home region of New England, it would cover the entire region up to a depth of a little less than five kilometers, which is about three times deeper than the glaciers during the last ice age about 20,000 years ago.
So I go and get it, open it up, and it's punch cards.
Google-branded punch cards.
And on these punch cards, there are a bunch of holes, and I said, thank you, thank you, okay, so what's on here?
That punch is as strong as a .22
Fourteen times in this first year and a half, I watched the police punch, choke, kick, stomp on or beat young men after they had caught them.
Indeed, a great deal of civil rights struggle over the last centuries has been to punch a hole through that wall and begin to feed these human things through the wall and have them become legal persons.
And so, in 1985, I figured that it would take about 30 years before we'd be able to even begin a strategic litigation, long-term campaign, in order to be able to punch another hole through that wall.
Verbal irony is where what is meant is the opposite of what is said, while sarcasm adds that little punch of attitude.
But unfortunately, the post-revolution events were like a punch in the gut.
The needles punch through the epidermis, allowing ink to seep deep into the dermis, which is composed of collagen fibers, nerves, glands, blood vessels and more.
Punch clocks are becoming obsolete, as are career ladders.
But the punch line of my talk is that just checking the facts is not enough.
That punch card system inspired Victorian inventor Charles Babbage to create his analytical engine, the first true programmable computer ever designed.
And punch cards were used by computer programmers as late as the 1970s.
Instead of thinking about paper printouts and punch cards, I imagined a magic blackboard that if you erased one number and wrote a new thing in, all of the other numbers would automatically change, like word processing with numbers.
Every time someone asks me, "How could you not have known?", it feels like a punch in the gut.
And it was his universe on punch cards.
If you were to suddenly receive a kiss or a punch, your reaction would be instinctive and immediate.
That was like a punch in the stomach.
And we discovered that these CAR T cells can punch far above their weight class, to use a boxing analogy.
We turn them into heroes, or we turn them into punch lines.
"Your life would be better if you could work a little less, didn't have to work so hard, got home a little earlier, could retire a little faster, punch out a little sooner."
But they weren't given that choice, because their own citizens beat them to the punch.
Okay, I'm getting to the punch.
Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls.
The remainder of the film lacked the punch to amuse either of my young daughters (aged less than ten years), myself, my wife, my mother-in-law, or even the cat or the dog.
"Congo" is based on the best-selling novel by Michael Crichton, which I thought lacked Crichton's usual charm, smart characters and punch.
They get PO'd at Sam who essentially goes into shock and aims a swinging punch at Mike that lands across his girlfriend Patty(Kristina Sheldon)instead so leaving the poor guy hanging is his punishment.
Everyone just seemed to be there for some sort of punch line.
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