How to Use scan in a Sentence

scan

1 of 2 verb
  • She scanned through the list to find her name.
  • Their bags were scanned at the airport.
  • She quickly scanned the pages of the newspaper.
  • She scanned his face for any clue to what he was thinking.
  • He scanned the field with binoculars.
  • This machine scans a patient's brain.
  • He scanned the audience looking for his parents.
  • The bull scans the crowd in the ring, alert to any challenge.
    Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The setup process is easy: First, the headset tracks the eyes, scan hands and maps the room.
    Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The idea of scanning wastewater for drug use isn’t new.
    Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The phrase evokes a solemn CEO scanning the sky from the deck of the corporate ship.
    Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The camera scans across the crowd, fans beaming and bopping along to every word.
    Isabelia Herrera, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Once members scan their card, a display shows the face on file for the employee to check.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • My clumsy, blue skis begin to skim the lake, like a sea gull scanning for snacks.
    Gloria Goodale, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Each package comes with a QR sticker that when scanned leads to directions on how to use the test strips.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • To work the bar in these moments was its own game of skill: scan the front row of faces, memorize an order, tune out the jeers from the back.
    Hazlitt, 21 June 2023
  • This cat was one of the animals brought to the Maui Humane Society to get scanned for a microchip.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Dalton would scan for new species of exploitable devices and write code to infect them.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The song can’t be shared as the link is encrypted — it can only be heard by scanning the garment.
    Maghan McDowell, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Scott would scan the horizon for a break in the trees, his heart pounding to the rhythm of the ticking clock Barry had imposed: The plane is going down.
    Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Webb scans the universe from a more distant perch, 1 million miles away.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 12 July 2023
  • She’s scanned the pages of step-by-step instructions and keeps them organized on her Google Drive, just in case.
    Kate Lindsay, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2023
  • And even once scanned, a street continues to evolve: Buildings are torn down, trees grow taller, empires fall.
    WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Employees would scan their fingerprint to clock in and out.
    Richard Ruelas, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
  • Then a countdown timer starts, giving you one hour to claim it by scanning a QR code and downloading the Temu app.
    Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
  • But passengers will scan their own bags and themselves.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Press and hold the button, scan across the forehead, and release the button to get a temperature reading.
    Katrina Cossey, Parents, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Security will scan the QR code on your phone to let you inside.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
  • In the case of children, parents can easily scan their children’s teeth.
    cleveland, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Jotting things down is now eco-friendly with the Rocketbook Core able to scan your notes and upload them into the cloud.
    Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2023
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scan

2 of 2 noun
  • The doctor examined the bone scans.
  • The patient underwent a brain scan.
  • But for most of that time, something in the scans eluded the researchers.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Think of it like a cross between selfies and thumbprint scans but for your face.
    Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Setup involves a quick scan of a QR code, and a few steps on your phone.
    Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The people on the phone produced a fake scan on Guthrie's laptop that said it had been hacked.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024
  • In the emergency room, doctors took X-rays and a CT scan.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 17 July 2023
  • Boone noted Dominguez went for a scan on his elbow, and the results were clear.
    Scott Thompson, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • As a last resort, the doctor ordered a CT scan of her chest.
    Dr. Danielle Craigg, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The only safe way to dive, Lochridge concluded, was to first carry out a full scan of the hull.
    Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 1 July 2023
  • The team took a CT scan of his head and found new bone had grown where a hole had been left, according to the case report.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
  • So, what exactly does one of these scans entail for just over $2,500 a pop?
    Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The scan reveals a map of where exactly those proteins are.
    WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The scan at 20 weeks confirmed the fetus's spinal cord hadn't closed so spinal fluid was leaking.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Once the scan is complete and the technician confirms that the image is OK, you will be allowed to leave.
    Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 15 Nov. 2023
  • For this reason, the team decided to keep the fossil within the rock and use CT scans to image it.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Imaging: These tests, such as a CT scan and X-ray, take detailed pictures of the inside of your body.
    Korin Miller, Health, 17 Nov. 2023
  • That was around 4 p.m., but an hour later, the orderlies still had not taken her for a CT scan.
    Kristi Pahr, Parents, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Just check page nine of this scan of the original document.
    Doug MacK, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2023
  • For reasons that are unclear, the hospital delayed the CT scans for hours.
    Pamela Appea, Parents, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The nodules in the patient’s lungs that showed up on her CT scans could be the earliest sign of such an infection.
    Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Then another fail-safe — a credential scan that should have also caught the key — missed that the key was there.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The scans weren’t covered by insurance and cost about a thousand dollars each.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The back label has a music scan, a ballad especially paired with the wine.
    Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The guild wanted compensation for reuse of the scans, along with consent.
    WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The Rangers will do their own scans as part of a physical, only after an agreement with Rocker is reached.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 31 May 2023
  • A number of start-ups, including Ezra and Neko Health, also offer full-body scans.
    Elizabeth Dwoskin, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • First, take a 3D scan of the scroll using x-ray tomography, the same technology as that used for a CT scan.
    Will Henshall, TIME, 21 Oct. 2023
  • All of those 3-D scans informed how the foam could be precisely distributed to nail the shape, Kardashian says.
    Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The scans from the probe found Deimos’s composition doesn’t match D-type(Opens in a new window) asteroids in the asteroid belt.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 25 Apr. 2023

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