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How to use barometer in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Barometer means an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure. Example: “The barometer is up, so fine weather should be on the way.”

Examples of barometer by meaning

nounAnything used as a gauge or indicator.

  • "An election is not necessarily an accurate barometer of public opinion.1916 Jun, Michigan Law Review, volume 14, number 8, pp. 661-665
  • The weakest members of society become social barometers or canaries in a coal mine.2006, Anthony Marcus, Where Have All the Homeless Gone?: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 152
  • Elections in six Malaysian states on Saturday will serve as a barometer of public sentiment for Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government against a powerful opposition consisting of Malay-Muslim political parties.2023 August 10, “Owners of ‘LGBT’ Swatch watches could be jailed for three years in Malaysia”, in The Guardian

More sentences with barometer

  • The barometer is up, so fine weather should be on the way.From the entry up
  • An evacuated bellows and mechanical linkage operates an aneroid barometer.From the entry aneroid
  • That, that lastingness, that memorability (“quotability” is the word often used), that’s probably the best barometer.2013 February 23, Adam Fleischer, “The 13 Best Rap Verses of 2013”, in Complex, archived from the original on 06 May 2017. From the entry lastingness
  • The best barometer of my mounting physical limitations was the game of horsy.2005, Larry L. Meyer, No Paltry Thing: Memoirs Of A Geezer Dad. From the entry horsy
  • Think of adenosine as a chemical barometer that continuously registers the amount of elapsed time since you woke up this morning.2017, Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep, Penguin, published 2018, page 27. From the entry adenosine
  • In the foreground of the photograph were the splintered remains of a pink poodle barometer promising fair weather.2017, Sophie Hénaff, The Awkward Squad. From the entry bombsite
  • If your barometer has dropped 0.05 of an inch in the last three hours, you are on the -0.05 isallobar.1977, Blair & Ketchum's Country Journal, volume 4, page 27. From the entry isallobar
  • Thus it would seem that in barology, anything that went beyond mere barometer readings to the interpretation of these readings should be considered a hypothesis.2018, Warren Schmaus, Liberty and the Pursuit of Knowledge. From the entry barology
  • Parliament in the seventeenth century an unsatisfactory barometer of public opinion because the franchise was irregularly distributed and the witch-ridden south-east over-represented.2012 May 23, R. T. Davies, Four Centuries of Witch Beliefs (RLE Witchcraft), Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry witch-ridden
  • Science fiction may be bad science and worse fiction, but to a good wig-picker it "is a sensitive barometer of our changing mental climate.1954, Time, page 92. From the entry wig-picker
  • Don't go fobbing it off as indigestion, my girl—it's your internal barometer warning you that you're about to make a dingo's breakfast out of your life.'2013, Anna Romer, Thornwood House. From the entry dingo's breakfast
  • A few doddards should, of course, be preserved, to run wode when the wind blows; to act as a sort of barometer for the energy of new work.2010, Robert Scholes, Clifford Wulfman, Modernism in the Magazines: An Introduction, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry doddard

Meaning of barometer

  1. noun An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.
  2. noun Anything used as a gauge or indicator.

Full definition of barometer

Questions about barometer in a sentence

How do you use barometer in a sentence?
Barometer is used as a noun. For example: “The barometer is up, so fine weather should be on the way.”
What is a short sentence with barometer?
“An evacuated bellows and mechanical linkage operates an aneroid barometer.”
What does barometer mean?
Barometer means an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

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