Example Sentences

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Finding that the gum went better than the baking powder he concentrated on that and gave away with it cash-registers, cheese-cutters, scales and desks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Mellon said that the reduction in size will not make obsolete money-counting machinery and cash-registers now in use and that the small size bill has been successfully used in the Philippines.

From Time Magazine Archive

His was not the day of cash-registers or other checking devices.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Hungerford, Edward

It sounded like a duel between two cash-registers.

From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Kipling, Rudyard

The tendency of colleges is to turn men from Nature to books; from bonfires to stoves, steam-heat and cash-registers; but Thoreau, by reversing all rules, suddenly found himself, and others, explaining his position in print.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert