cash register
Example Sentences
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They agreed to pay half a cent more at the cash register to fund buses, trains and pothole fillings in 2016.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
As a man in his 60s, I’ve been to my share of bereavement services—but only one took place in front of a cash register.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
The car business is the cash register that funds the empire.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 15, 2026
Ding goes the bell, and ding-ding goes the cash register in Jim’s head.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
She would show the clerk by the cash register the box when she paid for it, and he would never know she'd taken it off the shelf herself.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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