Example Sentences

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I have scanned copies of important documents including birth certificates and my military discharge papers and saved them in Google Drive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

It can feel like a huge undertaking to scan every family photo that’s in the box in your garage, but Quigley said you can tackle the project in segments until you have scanned them all.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

"Shein have scanned my design on to a piece of plastic and they're selling it to someone who's going to be wearing it for like an hour or so."

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2023

In a traditional search, by contrast, Google's web crawlers have scanned the internet to compile an index of information.

From Reuters • Feb. 22, 2023

Ah yes, good publisher, I have scanned your lists for many months back; but you have published nothing like The Captive.

From The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow by Sinclair, Upton