cash register

Example Sentences

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The viral dust-up is helping McDonald’s where it counts—at the cash register.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

The car business is the cash register that funds the empire.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 15, 2026

The finish line isn’t moral resolution, but the banality of the cash register: a product governed where it matters most, at the point of sale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

The project was commissioned as part of the La Plaza shopping complex by Julia Carnell, the heiress to a national cash register empire based in Dayton, Ohio.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

At the cash register she still didn’t know what she wanted.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith