How to Use serial number in a Sentence

serial number

noun

• The serial number on the weapon had been scratched off.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 7 Apr. 2022
• The horn should have a low serial number; the older ones, people say, are the best.
  — Chris Almeida, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2024
• To top it off, the carbon-fiber airbox is etched with the serial number 001.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2022
• The mystery didn’t last long, given that the boat had a serial number.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 29 June 2023
• Tap the name of your item tracker, and the serial number and firmware version will appear.
  — José Adorno, BGR, 20 Dec. 2022
• Your award is made of enamel on silver, and the serial number on the back was hand engraved.
  — oregonlive, 5 July 2023
• The report says police found a Glock handgun at the scene with its serial number scratched off.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
• Meanwhile, Carrie would try to match the serial numbers on the scraps of bills and tape them together.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2024
• In the end, the man was found because of a gun serial number and a background check, none of the high-tech tracking throughout the transit system.
  — WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
• Each AirTag has a serial number and is linked to an Apple account.
  — NBC News, 10 Feb. 2022
• The weapon was a .223-caliber assault rifle and had no serial number, Zanoni said.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2023
• Ghost guns that are there without a serial number, just for the wrong purposes.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 25 May 2022
• The soldier, who was a reservist and has since been discharged, said the device had been made in a factory and had a serial number on it.
  — Gal Koplewitz, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• The rules also requires gun parts to have serial numbers.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
• The lack of a serial number can hinder police from tracing them back to an owner.
  — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2022
• The website allows users to search for police by name or serial number.
  — Bailee Hill, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2023
• The parts are mass-produced and have no serial number, which makes the case difficult to prosecute.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2022
• Officers gained possession of the gun and ran the serial number.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 10 Aug. 2022
• This requires the bike to be registered, a process that didn't go smoothly for me because Super73 couldn't match the bike's Bluetooth ID with its serial number.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 June 2022
• The state then sends the gun owner a serial number that has to be engraved or otherwise permanently marked on the weapon.
  — Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 25 Jan. 2022
• Officers ran the serial number on the gun and learned that it was registered to a woman who is related to the boy, police said.
  — CBS News, 8 Aug. 2022
• The cartouches are engraved with the watchmaker’s mark and the serial number, while the main plate is decorated with the triskelion motif of the Isle of Man.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2022
• After the product is purchased, a point-of-sale RFID scanner reads all tags in range, matches the tool with the correct serial number and activates the tool for use.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 9 June 2023
• Guns found at crime scenes can often be tracked to their last owner by the serial number, but ghost guns have no such identifier.
  — Tom Jackman and Emily Davies, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2023
• One part of the handgun did have a serial number, but the overall weapon was likely not purchased whole and appeared to be privately made, Joines said.
  — Colleen Slevin, ajc, 23 Feb. 2023
• Ramsey said Patty provided the bill of sale, box and serial number of the Smith & Wesson 9mm pistol.
  — al, 16 Sep. 2022
• The manager explained that the bank would take back any bills that had been taped together with the full serial numbers visible on the front and back, Carrie added.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• Of other interest is the serial number on Jet’s (Mustafa Shakir) robotic arm.
  — Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 19 Nov. 2021
• Found among pebbles about seven feet from the road, the capsule was verified using the serial number printed on it.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2023
• Each bag also comes with a latch lock and has a Tumi tracer, a unique serial number that helps reunite travelers with their lost or stolen items.
  — Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024