How to Use cash register in a Sentence

cash register

noun
  • Stringer's store had a stack of Aaliyah posters next to the cash register.
    Kelley L. Carter, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The Wednesday lunch crowd stretched from the cash register to the front door.
    Bob Carlton | Bcarlton@al.com, al, 26 May 2022
  • Here and there, the clang of a cash register winks over the proceedings.
    Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The male asked a worker in the gas station to give him all the money in the cash register.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2020
  • But the biggest changes might be found near the cash register.
    Lettie Teague, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Photographs of protests line the walls, and the blue flag of British Hong Kong flies over the cash register.
    Megan Specia, New York Times, 27 May 2024
  • There might be an image of a cash register and a counter.
    Lee Gimpel, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • The best a pharmacist could do was add her name to a sticky note next to the cash register.
    Emily Woodruff, NOLA.com, 16 Jan. 2021
  • With trembling hands, the teen searched for the key to open the cash register drawer, The New York Times reports.
    Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Groomers Seafood by the airport keeps them close to the cash register for that reason.
    Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Just above the cash register hangs a gifted bear skin rug, said Hardy.
    Kathy Stephenson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Pro tip: Don’t ignore the giant cookies in the glass case by the cash register.
    Katie Toussaint, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Avalos also claimed that the men stole $2,000 from the cash register at the store.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The man then walked to the cash register to pay for bottles of alcohol.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 2 July 2021
  • Someone entered the store and took $100 from the cash register.
    cleveland, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The suspect, who was not wearing a face mask over his nose, took the bottles to the cash register.
    chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The robbers grabbed about $300 from a cash register and demanded to know if the store had a safe.
    Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Nothing was stolen from the shop; the business is cashless and does not have a cash register.
    Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 3 Feb. 2022
  • There’s also a swing near the front of the shop, and a framed photo of Lawson’s mother sits near the cash register.
    Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Their cash register is no more than 10 paces from their kitchen.
    Tom Henderson | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The footage allegedly showed the man who had been detained at the scene had jumped over the counter and taken a cash register.
    Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • Power tools sold at Lowe’s will only work once the bar code gets scanned at the cash register.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2023
  • Marvin hasn't opened the cash register drawer from the night David died.
    Kala Kachmar, The Courier-Journal, 5 June 2020
  • Under the counter near the cash register, there were five dead roaches.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 4 July 2024
  • To add to the old-time charm, the order counters include chunky cash registers and '80s menu boards.
    Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Their neon pie man sign is mounted on the few wood boards that survived on the wall behind the cash register.
    Dallas News, 31 Oct. 2022
  • In the video, the suspect walks into the store and pushes a customer in a red shirt that is near the cash register into the corner of the store.
    Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2023
  • Save: Click the + to save the offer and place your order online, or scan your barcode at the cash register.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Police said a group backed a vehicle through the door before stealing an empty cash register and cigarettes.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 7 May 2024
  • Workers fell ill; firms shelled out money for acrylic shields at cash registers and for other anti-coronavirus measures.
    Alina Selyukh, NPR, 9 Sep. 2024

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