SCAN in a Sentence

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For SCAN, below is one of 64 sentences:
He was taken back into the operating theatre after a brain scan revealed a rise in pressure inside his cranium and more bleeding.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCAN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scan
 v.  make a wide, sweeping search of; examine
Classic Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
1  First of all I regain the walls and the dim gateway whence my steps had issued; I scan and follow back my footprints with searching gaze in the night.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
2  Anchises ceased, and leads his son and the Sibyl likewise amid the assembled murmurous throng, and mounts a hillock whence he might scan all the long ranks and learn their countenances as they came.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
3  Thus they wander up and down over the whole region of broad vaporous plains, and scan all the scene.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
4  Folks'll talk sumpin scan'lous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  To scan the lines of his face, or feel the bumps on the head of this Leviathan; this is a thing which no Physiognomist or Phrenologist has as yet undertaken.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 79. The Prairie.
6  True, the last line did not scan, but that was a trifle, since the quatrain at least conformed to the mode then prevalent.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
7  Chichikov scanned the speaker's face, but could make nothing of it.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
8  Bazarov quickly scanned the letter, and made an effort to control himself, that he might not show the malignant feeling which was instantaneously aflame in his breast.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  I scanned them all insolently with my drowsy eyes.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IV
10  He turned away from her with a grimace that distorted his handsome face, kissed Anna Pavlovna's hand, and screwing up his eyes scanned the whole company.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
11  The prince stood still; his lively glittering eyes from under their thick, bushy eyebrows sternly scanned all present and rested on the little princess.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVII
12  He himself carefully scanned each face, appraising the possibilities of establishing intimacy with each of those present, and the advantages that might accrue.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI
13  Kozlovski scanned the ranks resolutely and included Rostov in his scrutiny.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XXI
14  Natasha lay on the bed and in the semidarkness of the room scanned Princess Mary's face.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER III
15  The Emperor with a rapid glance scanned Kutuzov from head to foot, frowned for an instant, but immediately mastering himself went up to the old man, extended his arms and embraced him.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  Most women will be offered an ultrasound scan during pregnancy, although it's not obligatory.
2  A scan determines the position of the baby in the womb.
3  Concealed video cameras scan every part of the compound.
4  Scientists used a type of scan, known as positron emission tomography, to show that just one hour of exposure to second hand smoke in an enclosed area can allow nicotine to reach the brain.
5  Hackers have begun exploiting the newly identified Shellshock computer bug, also widely known as the "Bash bug," using fast-moving worm viruses to scan for vulnerable systems and then infect them, researchers warned on Thursday.
6  He was taken back into the operating theatre after a brain scan revealed a rise in pressure inside his cranium and more bleeding.
7  The detective scanned every bit of evidence.
8  He scanned the horizon, looking for land.
9  Pictures are scanned into a form of digital information that computers can recognize.
10  He scanned the horizon, but there was no sign of the ship.
11  He scanned the horizon for any sign of land.
12  They scanned the sky for the spacecraft.
13  Brain scans have confirmed that the disease is in remission.