How to Use cash register in a Sentence

cash register

noun
  • Two of the men each grabbed a cash register off the counter.
    Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2018
  • One of the men went behind the counter and grabbed the cash register.
    Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 29 May 2018
  • 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
  • When the clerk turned her back to the counter, the man ran off with the cash register, Rivarde said.
    Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 25 May 2018
  • One of the men pulled out a gun and took all of the money out of the cash register, court records show.
    Dave Altimari, courant.com, 8 June 2018
  • Here and there, the clang of a cash register winks over the proceedings.
    Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The 100-year-old cash register was destroyed in the process.
    David Williams, CNN, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Foster shot the clerk in the head and took money from the cash register.
    Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • The line to get into the Four Inns restaurant during the lunch rush used to snake past the cash register and out the door.
    Molly Korzenowski, Twin Cities, 27 June 2019
  • 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
  • Yet the restaurant was as the man had described: a tiny room with a sushi bar and a cash register.
    Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 6 June 2018
  • Orders are placed at the cash register up front, then brought to you.
    Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • 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
  • The cash register counter, which was bolted to the ground, was upturned.
    Brian Compere, baltimoresun.com, 29 May 2018
  • 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
  • All three men made their way to the other side of the counter and ordered the clerk to open the cash register and then get on the ground, police said.
    Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • This play set features a conveyor belt, beeping scanner, cash register, play money and more.
    The View, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Is donating at the cash register a scam? 72-year-old Teresa Grimm makes a habit out of rounding up her grocery store bill at the register for charitable donations.
    Tamia Fowlkes, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024

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