How to Use scanner in a Sentence

scanner

noun
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  • First step: Place the carrier on the belt that leads to the scanner.
    — Andrea Sachs, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The man was in shock — the scanner showed his ticket was a winner.
    — Daniella Segura, Miami Herald, 27 May 2024
  • According to scanner traffic, the man was shot in the face and chest.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
  • The next step is to open the scanner up to the research community.
    — Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 13 Nov. 2023
  • That is the ballot that the voter puts into a scanner, which records the votes.
    — Kate Brumback, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Get a trash can, a scanner, a filing box, and a shredder.
    — Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The scanner was the clear winner for a couple of our test photos.
    — Simon Hill, Wired, 24 July 2022
  • It will be treated like a hip pack, which cannot be worn into the body scanners.
    — Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2023
  • Springer said the chief carries a police scanner with him.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2021
  • There should be no reason to bring a gun into a room with an MRI scanner.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • For the study, Kun-kun and 17 other dogs were trained to lay motionless in a brain scanner.
    — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Using your smartphone as a scanner can save a lot of time — and paper.
    — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The scanner showed some unknown anomalies around Smith’s groin area.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Once a week, Young's team at Scripps uses a truck — with an image scanner on top — to map the face of the cliffs down to the millimeter.
    — David Schechter, Haley Rush, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • And if your fingerprint doesn’t work right on your phone scanner, that’s fine.
    — Shira Ovide, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2023
  • James Bond heads into the casino and waves his smartphone over a scanner.
    — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The research aimed to create headphones that could be worn in MRI scanners.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Just slide your film through the scanner, and in no time, your cherished photos will appear on your screen.
    — New Atlas, 16 July 2024
  • The home button is gone in favor of a novel Touch ID scanner placed in the standby button at the top.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 12 June 2021
  • Roll one through the scanner, and TSA will wave you right through security.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2023
  • We were led in with a group of evacuees, where a Talib searched my bag, before letting me through to the scanner.
    — New York Times, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The scientists had the volunteers lie in the scanner and let their minds wander.
    — New York Times, 8 June 2021
  • The new scanners, which will check the name and photo on the card, will be monitored by employees.
    — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Once you are laid on the flatbed, it is passed through the gantry as the CT scanner rotates around the body to take continuous X-ray images.
    — Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 15 Nov. 2023
  • On the back is a 12-megapixel camera, lidar scanner, and a new adaptive True Tone flash.
    — Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 7 May 2024
  • The size of an Oculus Quest, the scanner has twin eyepieces and a metal camera nozzle that looks like a long stinger.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 14 Apr. 2022
  • They are allowed to place the ballots in scanners once that processing work is done.
    — Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The watchdog issued the penalty over systems that tracked the idle time of workers’ scanners and measured the speed of scanning.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Advocacy from trans travelers has since pressed the TSA to make even more changes, like introducing a gender-neutral algorithm for the full-body scanners in June 2023 (though reports of harassment and false alarms persist).
    — Samantha Allen, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Nov. 2024
  • Settlement dollars nationwide have bought body scanners, K-9 units, bulletproof vests, patrol trucks and laptops and printers for police and sheriffs.
    — Aneri Pattani, NPR, 16 Dec. 2024

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