How to Use scanner in a Sentence

scanner

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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Zello is a free app that turns your smartphone into a sort of hybrid walkie-talkie/police scanner.
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2023
  • As a colleague, he’s known for his strong work ethic, the kind who had a police scanner at home and thought nothing of racing to fires or car crashes in the middle of the night.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 29 July 2023
  • The scanner flagged her abdomen, and White was taken to a private screening room, where agents removed the package from her abdomen.
    — Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Break times, the report says, are measured from the time a hand scanner scans its last item before a break and the first item after, no matter where the employee is in the warehouse.
    — Time, 19 Jan. 2023
  • In the new study, three participants laid stock-still in an fMRI scanner for 15 sessions that totaled to 16 hours.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 1 May 2023
  • What if Cappitelli hadn’t heard something puzzling on his scanner and learned about the Januses from his friend Kramer?
    — Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The scanner measured blood flow to the different parts of their brains, showing which parts were active at specific points in the podcast episodes.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2023
  • As the table rolled into the scanner, Taylor Swift started playing.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The Neptune, Lumafield’s first scanner, is a hulking machine that looks like a gigantic black microwave oven at first glance.
    — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2023

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