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

Michelle Moreno, Eco Bay’s safety director, said the company now places thermometers in different areas of the job site and checks them throughout the day to ensure the temperature is under the 82-degree threshold.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024

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

Telescopes and thermometers do not change the world around them as saws and hammers do, but they change our awareness of the world.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton