bar code

Example Sentences

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Sharma expected the count to take an hour using bar code scanners, but they malfunctioned in the cold, forcing his team to pull an all-nighter and count manually.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Unflattering references to the technology liken the process to a supermarket checkout - where your face becomes a bar code.

From BBC • May 25, 2024

The machines scan the bar code on the back of the membership card, showing the membership record, including photo and status, Callans said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024

The 30-ish Londoner at the center of McCarthy’s sparse debut is almost heroically bland; if a bar code were a person, it would be this man.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2024

But against one wall sat a war chariot with a big bar code on the side.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan