Sentence Examples

1. The desk top is empty save for his computer and, open atop his keyboard, the letter acknowledging receipt of his application to secure a commission of indigenous artworks for La Mareta, a stately home soon to be opened to the public.
2. I signed on to my computer and was greeted with an array of beeps as the receipt tape advanced in the printer.
3. It bleeped as green fluorescent text flowed across its one-line screen and text printed on a strip of paper, like a receipt scrolling from a cash register.
4. He finished filling up his tank, grabbed the receipt off the pump, and climbed back in his car.
5. Michael paid cash for our orders, slipped the receipt in his pocket, and carried the tray to a booth by the window.
6. I will take the five scraps of paper that I now hold as bonds, with your signature alone, and here is a receipt in full for the six millions between us.
7. I studied the receipt and seen it was made out for the purchase of a book called, Der Rote Baron.
8. It was one of the Dining Room waiters who had eventually put a name to the face and that was only because she had signed a receipt for the wine she ordered to have with her evening meal.
9. Our separation agreement has a non-molestation clause, and I need a receipt or a witness.
10. Well, with Lola, Babis was past the point where every minute that went by without her reply to his SMS either first advanced and then delayed its receipt, or where in its own that very min-ute consisted of a new message to be decrypted.