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How to use thermometer in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun

Thermometer means an apparatus used to measure temperature. Example: “The most accurate way to take your temperature is by sticking a thermometer up your butt.”

Examples of thermometer by meaning

nounAn apparatus used to measure temperature.

  • The brothers had thrust the thermometer between two circuit boards in order to look for hot spots inside m zero.1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2020
  • There are, of course, smart speakers (which roughly a quarter of American homes have) and smart thermostats, as well as smart thermometers, smart mattress covers, smart coffee makers, smart doorbells, and even, yes, smart toasters.2018 December 18, Joe Pinsker, “The Coming Commodification of Life at Home”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2019

More sentences with thermometer

  • The most accurate way to take your temperature is by sticking a thermometer up your butt.From the entry temperature
  • The scientist recorded the temperature with a thermometer, but wished he had a more accurate instrument.From the entry instrument
  • The thermometer says zero, but with the wind chill it's more like minus five.From the entry wind chill
  • We measured the temperature with a thermometer.From the entry measure
  • The thermometer had to be inserted rectally.From the entry rectally
  • A Corpsman was yanking my pants down in order to administer a “silver bullet” (rectal thermometer).2017, Jason Delgado, Chris Martin, Bounty Hunter 4/3: From the Bronx to Marine Scout Sniper, page 109. From the entry silver bullet
  • Each type of thermometer has a specific kata factor inscribed on its stem.2006, G. M. Dhaar, I. Robbani, Foundations of Community Medicine, page 41. From the entry kata factor
  • Steam tables, bains marie, and chaffing dishes require that an accurate external probe thermometer be used.2003, Ronald H. Schmidt, Gary E. Rodrick, Food Safety Handbook, page 511. From the entry bain-marie
  • Nurse Solveig inserted the thermometer and disappeared—disappeared (I timed it) for more than twenty minutes.1984, Oliver Sacks, chapter 2, in A Leg to Stand On, HarperPerennial, published 1993, page 23. From the entry shindy
  • The sudden changes in temperature is equal to the spasmodicness of the Spiritual thermometer.1936 February 27, Jack Houts, “[Rosston Dept.] Methodist Church: Sermon Squibs”, in The Harper County Journal, volume XXXII, number 4…. From the entry spasmodicness
  • "The accurate measurement of temperature is still a problem of considerable difficulty," he resumed, adjusting the thermometer.1914, Arthur B[enjamin] Reeve, “(please specify the story)”, in The Dream Doctor (The Craig Kennedy Series), New York, N.Y.; London…. From the entry telethermometer
  • They wore masks and wielded blue, gun-shaped thermometers.2020 January 31, Dake Kang, “The shunned: People from virus-hit city tracked, quarantined”, in AP News, archived from the original on 15…. From the entry common cold
  • Testing the temperature with a candy thermometer is the most accurate way to determine the doneness of a syrup.2004, Wayne Gisslen, Professional Baking, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 207. From the entry doneness
  • Alternatively, a thermometer can be inserted through the condenser attached to the stillhead so the thermometer bulb is in the lower neck of the stillhead.2015 January 1, John C. Gilbert, Stephen F. Martin, Experimental Organic Chemistry: A Miniscale & Microscale Approach, Cengage Learning…. From the entry stillhead
  • I was a lightning rod, now cold, now hotflashes, all weather gathered into my epicenter, reality a useless thermometer on the wall.2007, Claudia Carlson, The Elephant House, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry hotflash
  • In the present report I shall describe the methods of quantitative measurement of the orgone by means of the electroscope and the thermometer.1944, Wilhelm Reich, “The Discovery of the Orgone, part 2”, in Theodore P Wolfe, transl., International Journal of Sex-Economy and…. From the entry orgone
  • In winter the thermometer on the Mongolian plateau sometimes drops to –40° Fahrenheit, yet the camels wander about with no sense of suffering.1901 December 21, “Science and Industry”, in The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journal, volume LXXV, number 23, →OCLC, page 181, column 1. From the entry gobi
  • Wet-bulb temperature (WBT) combines dry air temperature (as you’d see on a thermometer) with humidity – in essence, it is a measure of heat-stress conditions on humans.2022 July 31, Jocelyn Timperley, “Why you need to worry about the ‘wet-bulb temperature’”, in The Guardian. From the entry wet bulb temperature
  • Of course, there is the infamous “Silver Bullet,” which is a rectal thermometer that measures the body's core temperature in the event of a heat case.2006, Cpl. Matthew D. Wojtecki, Every Other Four, page 140. From the entry silver bullet

Meaning of thermometer

  1. noun An apparatus used to measure temperature.

Full definition of thermometer

Questions about thermometer in a sentence

How do you use thermometer in a sentence?
Thermometer is used as a noun. For example: “The most accurate way to take your temperature is by sticking a thermometer up your butt.”
What is a short sentence with thermometer?
“The thermometer had to be inserted rectally.”
What does thermometer mean?
Thermometer means an apparatus used to measure temperature.

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