Example Sentences

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Unfortunately, there was no guard on the train and when Ms Cook reached the station, transport police were scanning everyone's tickets.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2024

Wildlife filmmaker Carlos Gauna and UC Riverside biology doctoral student Phillip Sternes were scanning the waters for sharks on July 9, 2023, near Santa Barbara on California's central coast.

From Science Daily • Jan. 29, 2024

There were no Israeli casualties and soldiers were scanning the area, it said.

From Reuters • May 26, 2023

They were scanning Navy patients' pathology slides at a furious clip, but they needed a larger data set to validate their findings.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2022

Daisy and I were scanning stations in search of a song by a particular brilliant and underappreciated boy band when we landed upon a news story.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green