In a sentence
Six example sentences with scanner, each labelled with its topic.
The flatbed scanner turned a shoebox of family photographs into a searchable folder in a single rainy afternoon.
Technology
The hospital's new scanner produces a full image of the spine in under a minute, so patients no longer lie still for long.
Medicine
Every checkout scanner reads the barcode and updates the stock count at once, so the warehouse reorders before the shelf is empty.
Business
The airport scanner builds an image of each passenger in seconds, and the officer sees only an outline with any flagged spot.
Travel
A flatbed scanner turned her ink drawings into files the printer could enlarge to poster size without losing a line.
Art
Paleontologists ran the fossil through a scanner and rebuilt the skull in software without chipping away a grain of rock.
Science
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