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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Try using a Wi-Fi scanner to check the optimum 2.4GHz channel for your area or the least used channel.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The scanners used high-energy X-rays to look past the organism’s scales, fur, or skin to view the dense bone structure beneath.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Then the batch of ballots would be handed off to a scanner, where votes would be tabulated.
    — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
  • This was before the days when scanners were commonplace in offices.
    — Dante Ross, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • On the right side, there's a volume rocker and a power switch/fingerprint scanner.
    — Iyaz Akhtar, PCMAG, 26 July 2023
  • The scanner, which could be used once a week or month, was recently described in Science Advances.
    — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Microchips, on the other hand, contain unique ID numbers for the animals, but the chips need to be read with special scanners.
    — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The scanner does pick up every blemish, and several images had to be cropped.
    — Simon Hill, Wired, 24 July 2022
  • The four remaining jails will also receive the scanners.
    — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
  • Clearly, the customer is not always right, or amusing, but there is another retail maxim that applies here, which is not to take out one’s frustrations (with the scanner, in this case) on the customer.
    — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2024

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