How to Use scan in a Sentence

scan

1 of 2 verb

• She scanned through the list to find her name.
• Their bags were scanned at the airport.
• She quickly scanned the pages of the newspaper.
• She scanned his face for any clue to what he was thinking.
• He scanned the field with binoculars.
• This machine scans a patient's brain.
• He scanned the audience looking for his parents.
• The bull scans the crowd in the ring, alert to any challenge.
  — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
• The setup process is easy: First, the headset tracks the eyes, scan hands and maps the room.
  — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
• The idea of scanning wastewater for drug use isn’t new.
  — Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2024
• The phrase evokes a solemn CEO scanning the sky from the deck of the corporate ship.
  — Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• The camera scans across the crowd, fans beaming and bopping along to every word.
  — Isabelia Herrera, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2023
• Once members scan their card, a display shows the face on file for the employee to check.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
• My clumsy, blue skis begin to skim the lake, like a sea gull scanning for snacks.
  — Gloria Goodale, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
• Each package comes with a QR sticker that when scanned leads to directions on how to use the test strips.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• To work the bar in these moments was its own game of skill: scan the front row of faces, memorize an order, tune out the jeers from the back.
  — Hazlitt, 21 June 2023
• This cat was one of the animals brought to the Maui Humane Society to get scanned for a microchip.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2023
• Dalton would scan for new species of exploitable devices and write code to infect them.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• The song can’t be shared as the link is encrypted — it can only be heard by scanning the garment.
  — Maghan McDowell, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2023
• Scott would scan the horizon for a break in the trees, his heart pounding to the rhythm of the ticking clock Barry had imposed: The plane is going down.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Webb scans the universe from a more distant perch, 1 million miles away.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 12 July 2023
• She’s scanned the pages of step-by-step instructions and keeps them organized on her Google Drive, just in case.
  — Kate Lindsay, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2023
• And even once scanned, a street continues to evolve: Buildings are torn down, trees grow taller, empires fall.
  — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
• Employees would scan their fingerprint to clock in and out.
  — Richard Ruelas, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
• Then a countdown timer starts, giving you one hour to claim it by scanning a QR code and downloading the Temu app.
  — Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
• But passengers will scan their own bags and themselves.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
• Press and hold the button, scan across the forehead, and release the button to get a temperature reading.
  — Katrina Cossey, Parents, 27 Feb. 2024
• Security will scan the QR code on your phone to let you inside.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
• Cash and credit card users must purchase a ticket at the machine at the station and scan their ticket before boarding the bus.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2024
• Unlike the other possibilities — most of them small-state governors and obscure congresspersons — Pompeo comes fully vetted in a year when the media will surely give Trump’s choice a full, head-to-toe body scan.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 27 Mar. 2024

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scan

2 of 2 noun

• The doctor examined the bone scans.
• The patient underwent a brain scan.
• But for most of that time, something in the scans eluded the researchers.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2023
• Think of it like a cross between selfies and thumbprint scans but for your face.
  — Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 18 Sep. 2023
• Setup involves a quick scan of a QR code, and a few steps on your phone.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
• The people on the phone produced a fake scan on Guthrie's laptop that said it had been hacked.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024
• In the emergency room, doctors took X-rays and a CT scan.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 17 July 2023
• Boone noted Dominguez went for a scan on his elbow, and the results were clear.
  — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2023
• As a last resort, the doctor ordered a CT scan of her chest.
  — Dr. Danielle Craigg, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2023
• The only safe way to dive, Lochridge concluded, was to first carry out a full scan of the hull.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 1 July 2023
• The team took a CT scan of his head and found new bone had grown where a hole had been left, according to the case report.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• So, what exactly does one of these scans entail for just over $2,500 a pop?
  — Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2023
• The scan reveals a map of where exactly those proteins are.
  — WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023
• The scan at 20 weeks confirmed the fetus's spinal cord hadn't closed so spinal fluid was leaking.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2023
• Once the scan is complete and the technician confirms that the image is OK, you will be allowed to leave.
  — Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 15 Nov. 2023
• For this reason, the team decided to keep the fossil within the rock and use CT scans to image it.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
• Imaging: These tests, such as a CT scan and X-ray, take detailed pictures of the inside of your body.
  — Korin Miller, Health, 17 Nov. 2023
• That was around 4 p.m., but an hour later, the orderlies still had not taken her for a CT scan.
  — Kristi Pahr, Parents, 19 Sep. 2023
• Just check page nine of this scan of the original document.
  — Doug MacK, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2023
• For reasons that are unclear, the hospital delayed the CT scans for hours.
  — Pamela Appea, Parents, 9 Mar. 2024
• The nodules in the patient’s lungs that showed up on her CT scans could be the earliest sign of such an infection.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• Then another fail-safe — a credential scan that should have also caught the key — missed that the key was there.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 6 Sep. 2023
• The scans weren’t covered by insurance and cost about a thousand dollars each.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
• The back label has a music scan, a ballad especially paired with the wine.
  — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• The guild wanted compensation for reuse of the scans, along with consent.
  — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
• The Rangers will do their own scans as part of a physical, only after an agreement with Rocker is reached.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 31 May 2023
• A number of start-ups, including Ezra and Neko Health, also offer full-body scans.
  — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
• First, take a 3D scan of the scroll using x-ray tomography, the same technology as that used for a CT scan.
  — Will Henshall, TIME, 21 Oct. 2023
• Officers will be at these detectors viewing an iPad for scans and checking those who set off the alarm.
  — Oscar Gonzalez / Gizmodo, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
• Brain scans of people who spend time outdoors show their prefrontal cortex has more gray matter plus a stronger ability to think clearly and self-regulate stress and anxiety.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024