How to Use scanner in a Sentence

scanner

noun
Definition of scannernext
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • The technologist may ask them to hold their breath for 5 to 10 seconds as the table passes through the scanner.
    — Nina Thomas, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2024
  • That concern led to two years of painstaking work to map the seafloor with laser and sonar scanners in an attempt to increase their odds of success.
    — Nancy Averett, Scientific American, 2 Jan. 2024
  • New tools like radio wave scanners and AI photo apps can help.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2023
  • And in deference to real-world speed limits, a scanner and radar system from Uniden keeps drivers on the right side of the law.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The trade-off is that the performance is only midrange, there's no fingerprint scanner, and the screen doesn't hit the 120 Hz refresh rate of the standard S7.
    — Gear Team, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
  • One new rule that a judge blocked requires that three separate poll workers count the number of Election Day ballots by hand to make sure the number of paper ballots matches the electronic tallies on scanners, check-in computers and voting machines.
    — CBS News, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford used ultra-high-resolution scanners to study the brains of 30 people who had been admitted to hospital with severe Covid-19 early in the pandemic, before vaccines were available.
    — The Week Uk, theweek, 8 Oct. 2024

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