thermometer

Example Sentences

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"How pitiful," he said, lowering a thermometer into the water.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

The timepiece includes moon phases, an alarm and thermometer and was described as "one of the world's most complicated vintage pocket watches ever made".

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2025

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 Scot brought a thermometer to last year’s contest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025

I dig through the kitchen drawers in search of a thermometer but come up empty.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller