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
They will deliver packages for Amazon or man a supermarket cash register to pay their bills.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025
Ed Intagliata leaned his body against the cash register as he greeted customers with a heartfelt goodbye hug.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2025
On a black, sultry night in early summer Biff Brannon stood behind the cash register of the New York Café.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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