thermometers

Example Sentences

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Two people in the area fainted as thermometers showed the temperature hitting 97 degrees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Newsom homed in on Trump’s climate change denials while speaking to New York Times reporter David Gelles at the paper’s Climate Forward forum on Wednesday, saying thermometers are not political.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025

The outage in that state on Tuesday came during a heat wave in the Northeast that shot thermometers up above 90 degrees in Boston.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024

On Thursday, NWS thermometers showed new highs for 6 June in locations that included Las Vegas and Death Valley.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2024

The nurse had set her tray of thermometers on my bed while she turned her back and took the pulse of the person who lay next to me, in Mrs. Tomolillo's place.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath