thermometer
Example Sentences
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The box also lacked a thermometer that could alert the medical team to the low temperature.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026
"How pitiful," he said, lowering a thermometer into the water.
From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026
The approach, known as a penetrating thermometer, integrates emissions across the QGP's entire lifetime to produce an average thermal profile.
From Science Daily • Oct. 29, 2025
The walls are almost entirely covered in Dodgers memorabilia: yearbooks, programs, newspapers, magazine covers, advertisements, record albums, even a thermometer reading “1988 World Champions,” with portraits of Vin Scully, Don Drysdale and Ross Porter.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2025
The nurse was shaking down the thermometer she had just removed from my mouth.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
