Sentence examples for like scanning from inspiring English sources

However, this is just like scanning the college's Facebook profile.

Constantly searching sentimental literature for unsentimental or "subversive" instances seems a perverse occupation, like scanning a nursery for ugly babies.

Such projects have become quite common, attracting millions of volunteers to endeavors like scanning radio-telescope signals for alien messages and cracking codes.

Looking down the slate of games is like scanning the day's catch at the Grand Central Oyster Bar: it's easy to become overstimulated.

Ms. Lin purposely chose a small typeface, unheard of in monumental design, so that reading the names would seem more intimate, like scanning a printed page.

That means that in some situations, like scanning a news article or skimming over revision notes before an exam, speed reading is fine.

Later, I realized an app called JotNot Pro was excellent at making iPhone photos look like scanned documents.

Mrs. Ingram bought a computer program as an add-on to her machine that takes art like scanned sketches or photographs and converts the images into directions for electronic embroidery.

I climbed onto the gurney, and a technician fitted me with a helmet that had a built-in viewer, and then slowly slid me into the coffin-like scanning tube.

Based on this method, we perform simulations of retina-like scanning properties, including compression of redundant information and rotation and scaling invariance.

A number of other puzzles are used only once, including puzzles to simulate transferring files over a damaged network, infrared scanning of buildings, radar-like scanning of areas, and creating a network link across the entire planet.