library card
Americannoun
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library cards
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of library card
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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And last year, I got a library card, paying about $40 total so that I could take full advantage of the Amsterdam public libraries’ book collection.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2026
The planning began the way all great overcommitments do: with a library card.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2025
The Los Angeles Public Library and LAX collaboration borrows from a program the library launched in 2023, Read Freely, that provides a library card and immediate access to books that have been targeted for banning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2024
One cat-less 7-year-old boy, who never returned a “Captain Underpants” book, had his library card reactivated after the staff gave him paper and crayons to sketch one.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
“Take back your library card? They don’t do that. They mark the book damaged, maybe make you pay. Now that you got the pages they can fix it.”
From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome
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