How to Use cashier in a Sentence

cashier

1 of 2 verb
  • He was cashiered from the army.
  • He's been cashiering on his own for three months, now, said store manager Sean Kuczynski.
    — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2018
  • Kovalchuk, cashiered by the Kings in mid-December, has been just what the doctor ordered for the Habs.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Everyone but Orbán has been cashiered in subsequent elections.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The Maduro government has arrested dozens of officers this year and cashiered others in a military purge.
    — John Otis and, WSJ, 18 May 2018
  • Brexit has cashiered a long list of centrist politicians on the right and left who used EU membership as an excuse for their own mediocre economic performance.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2020
  • The insurance regulatory agency’s chairman was cashiered for corruption and accused of bribe-taking in a separate case last year.
    — WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Military lawyers will later determine if any of the officers should face criminal charges and whether the two senior officers, a major and a reserve colonel, would be cashiered from the army.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Boston Heights store and was passed up for promotion to cashier several times, despite having good performance reviews, according to the lawsuit.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The summer jobs teens used to take — flipping burgers, unpacking produce at the grocery store, cashiering at the mall — are increasingly filled by older, often foreign-born, workers.
    — Washington Post, 23 June 2017
  • Even the allegedly ascendant populists are frustrated as their agenda stalls in Washington and their champions are cashiered out of the White House.
    — David French, National Review, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Its deputy chief, right up to the moment he was cashiered for lying to his superiors about a self-serving media leak, said criticism only undermined the Russia investigation.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 4 May 2018
  • Teams go to these lengths because the stakes are high—pro football is a zero-sum competition, where every team’s victory is another team’s defeat—and the executives of losing teams are regularly cashiered.
    — Oliver Staley, Quartz at Work, 24 Oct. 2019
  • While a flurry of bankruptcies did cashier a number of retail outlets, with Rite Aid and Joann leading the pack, the bankruptcy rate so far this year is much slower than last year at the same time, making the current trend that much more remarkable.
    — Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Citizens and their representative governments ceding sovereignty to unaccountable supranational bodies is the geopolitical equivalent of corporations cashiering the shareholder model in favor of stakeholder capitalism.
    — Richard J. Shinder, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2020
  • The movie, which Polanski wrote with the British novelist Robert Harris (on whose 2013 novel it’s based), starts not with Dreyfus’s arrest or conviction but with his cashiering ceremony, in the courtyard of the École Militaire, in Paris.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025

cashier

2 of 2 noun
  • The cashier told her there were just a few fruit cakes left.
    — Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Mustafa cut the line at a shawarma place and shook hands with the cashier boy.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Feb. 2026
  • The cashier was talking about a blood sugar test.
    — Ann Larson, Time, 11 June 2026
  • Ask if the cashier can give you a discount on your groceries.
    — NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The cashier scans the final item and the total pops up on the screen.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • There's no cashier, no storefront, and no one watching.
    — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Currency from around the world hangs from a plate glass where the cashier sits.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • All customers have to do is pick up the paper and hand it to the cashier.
    — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Go stores don’t have cashiers, but workers prepare food and stock shelves.
    — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Ask a cashier to add you to the store's email list at checkout, or sign up on its website.
    — Ashley Poskin, Martha Stewart, 6 May 2026
  • One man came in with a bag of coins that the cashier patiently counted out.
    — Shannon Pettypiece, NBC news, 1 June 2026
  • Instead, engage with your cashier and ask them how their day is going.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Thank the cashier profusely for sharing this holy space with you.
    — Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The cashier blinked at me and muttered how these were undershirts.
    — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Even the cashier couldn’t help but smile at our casual flirting.
    — Natalie Zimmerman, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
  • The cashier gave her money from the cash drawer, and the suspect fled on foot.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The bear charged through the front doors, sending the boy and the cashier scrambling for cover.
    — Shelley Bortz, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Users can claim Fliff Coins every two hours and through the cashier tab on the app.
    — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Cynthia ducked past the cashier and headed to a table with her free burger.
    — Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • Yet today there are still more than three million cashiers in the US.
    — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • By the second or third visit, the cashier starts to recognize me.
    — Ahmed Naji, The Dial, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The branch had an opening for a cashier at a salary range of $16 to $18 an hour.
    — Daniela Sirtori-Cortina, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Or the cashiers know you by name and buy your kid's Girl Scout Cookies.
    — Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Decades ago, food stamps were paper coupons presented to a cashier at a grocery store.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The cashier simply scans the barcodes of the goods in the basket and off our consumer goes.
    — Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • Working as a cashier at HomeGoods?
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 7 Dec. 2025
  • The cashier will just scan one barcode and any available coupons will be applied to your purchase.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 24 July 2023
  • Making small talk about your day with the cashier at Trader Joe’s is one thing.
    — Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Bob watched Vernon collect the kids and wife and granny and head to the cashier at the entrance.
    — Tom Hanks, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
  • So the man went inside and asked the cashier for five $1 tickets and one $5 ticket.
    — Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026

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