How to Use cash register in a Sentence

cash register

noun
  • Her role has been to check customers out at the cash register.
    — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
  • One of the men went behind the counter and grabbed the cash register.
    — Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 29 May 2018
  • There’s a paint bucket on the floor by the cash register.
    — Michael Nied, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • But the biggest changes might be found near the cash register.
    — Lettie Teague, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Orders are placed at the cash register up front, then brought to you.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • That logic does not stop at the cash register.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 10 June 2026
  • Their cash register is no more than 10 paces from their kitchen.
    — Tom Henderson | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 21 Apr. 2022
  • But its reach mostly stopped at the cash register.
    — Annie Levin, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Stringer's store had a stack of Aaliyah posters next to the cash register.
    — Kelley L. Carter, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2021
  • There's a changing room at the back of the store and a cash register at the front.
    — Brian Krans, NPR, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Foster shot the clerk in the head and took money from the cash register.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2020
  • While Drew was waiting in line at the cash register, his phone rang.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • One of the men pulled out a gun and took all of the money out of the cash register, court records show.
    — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 8 June 2018
  • Just above the cash register hangs a gifted bear skin rug, said Hardy.
    — Kathy Stephenson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Here and there, the clang of a cash register winks over the proceedings.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The Wednesday lunch crowd stretched from the cash register to the front door.
    — Bob Carlton | [email protected], al, 26 May 2022
  • The best a pharmacist could do was add her name to a sticky note next to the cash register.
    — Emily Woodruff, NOLA.com, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Sunday said the coffee shop did not have a cash register.
    — Dan Snyder, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Under the counter near the cash register, there were five dead roaches.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 4 July 2024
  • The cash register counter, which was bolted to the ground, was upturned.
    — Brian Compere, baltimoresun.com, 29 May 2018
  • But even here, pennies are growing scarce at the cash register.
    — Erika Tulfo, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Gift cards sit beside cash registers.
    — Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Panahi shrugged, then headed for the cash register with the glasses.
    — H. C. Wilentz, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The man then walked to the cash register to pay for bottles of alcohol.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 2 July 2021
  • The male asked a worker in the gas station to give him all the money in the cash register.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Police said one of the men in the group took a cash register before running off.
    — Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • King pretended to be dead as Lee tried to wrench open the cash register.
    — Nina Giraldo, CNN Money, 9 June 2026
  • When the clerk turned her back to the counter, the man ran off with the cash register, Rivarde said.
    — Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 25 May 2018
  • Nothing was stolen from the shop; the business is cashless and does not have a cash register.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 3 Feb. 2022
  • By day, Lopez worked behind a cash register at a chain restaurant.
    — Ana Karina Zatarain, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025

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