cash register
Example Sentences
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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
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
An older woman stands behind the cash register, ringing up customers and snapping paper bags open to stuff them with purchases.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
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