marker

Example Sentences

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As a result, neither marker alone is reliable enough for screening.

From Science Daily • Mar. 23, 2026

Lobbing a few commands at the computer, Grace finds Mary to be no more useful than Siri and soon resorts to doing his own math with a dry-erase marker.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

With an unbeaten 97, Samson laid down the marker.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

After the father’s guilty plea, the prosecutor said that he hoped it “laid down a marker to other prosecutors, to other police in this country, to other parents, that they must be held accountable.”

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2026

There were several more trips out to sea, but almost none without something going wrong, and once, not following the channel marker buoys, the Warden ran the Lady Gin aground.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French