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

Now they’re changing the currency on the cash register.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 16, 2025

Ding goes the bell, and ding-ding goes the cash register in Jim’s head.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Through his cousin Sony, who resides in a nearby halfway house and obsesses about the Civil War, Hai is hired by Home Market, where he scrubs counters and toilets and works the cash register.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2025

While he went behind the counter to unlock the cash register, I walked over to the rack where the tablets and pencils were.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns