Sentence examples for scan from inspiring English sources
scan
To examine sequentially, part by part.
The word "scan" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it as a verb meaning to look over quickly, or to examine with a device that records data. For example, "I scanned the room for any signs of danger.".
The doctor sent me for an MRI scan to make sure the vertigo was the extent of my head injuries.
I think we lay on the floor and did a 45-minute "body scan" meditation.
I had only intended to give it a cursory scan, but three hours later I was still there, unable to consign anything to the bin.
Hodgson will be sweating on the outcome of Sturridge's scan, especially given the England boss is already having to take an inexperienced squad to St Jakob Park.
They scan their feelings and come up with compassion and respect, a sample of one that allows them to reject the premise of a more general conservative attack on women's rights.
We have to make a scan to see how bad it is but he is out at least for a few weeks.
Rogers Photo Archive was going to scan and tag the photos in return for the right to sell the originals for a profit when the project was completed.
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