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40 examples of Thermometer in a sentence

And what they do on that survey is they ask what's called a feeling thermometer rating.
I immediately grabbed for my thermometer, and the average temperatures in the river were 86 degrees C.
Now, the problem is that humans can't detect our own body temperature without a thermometer.
So what if we could create a tattooable thermometer that you could access anytime?
They work against the clock and against the thermometer.
In real life, Tritter would have been hauled up for harassment, the rectal thermometer episode would have been exposed in court, providing motive and opportunity and the hospitals lawyers would have made mincemeat out of Tritter and the particular department he worked for.
Well, once there, Arbuckle accidentally eats a thermometer and is taken to surgery.
If I were to create a movie thermometer, this movie would be absolute zero.
In support of his thesis, he offers several examples of “parallel instances” of invention: there were six separate inventors of the thermometer, three of the hypodermic needle, four of vaccination, five of the electric telegraph, and so on.
The Death Throes of OilPRINCETON – The price of oil is often regarded as a sort of thermometer to measure the health of the world economy.
The Coming Age of Financial AutomationPRINCETON – Public debate, especially during economic crises, focuses on growth statistics, which become a kind of fever thermometer.
Worse, these politicians were joined by an astonishingly large number of conservative economists, who conveniently seemed to forget that the short-term safe interest rate is a good thermometer for the economy.
You're familiar with some of them, such as the thermometer, which gives the temperature inside the Nautilus; the barometer, which measures the heaviness of the outside air and forecasts changes in the weather; the humidistat, which indicates the degree of dryness in the atmosphere; the storm glass, whose mixture decomposes to foretell the arrival of tempests; the compass, which steers my course; the sextant, which takes the sun's altitude and tells me my latitude; chronometers, which allow me to calculate my longitude; and finally, spyglasses for both day and night, enabling me to scrutinize every point of the horizon once the Nautilus has risen to the surface of the waves."
The thermometer indicated a temperature of 4.25 degrees centigrade, which at this depth seemed to be a temperature common to all latitudes.
By contrast, Captain Nemo would seek the sea's temperature by going himself into its depths, and when he placed his thermometer in contact with the various layers of liquid, he found the sought-for degree immediately and with certainty.
As for the temperature in these lower strata, the thermometer always and invariably indicated 4 degrees centigrade.
He approached the thermometer, consulted it, and turned to me:"42 degrees centigrade," he said.
Exposed to the outside air, the thermometer marked -2 degrees to -3 degrees centigrade.
The thermometer rose again.
The thermometer marked 3 degrees centigrade.
The thermometer marked -2 degrees centigrade.
The thermometer marked -12 degrees centigrade, and a fresh breeze left a sharp nip in the air.
By then the thermometer gave -7 degrees centigrade outside.
The steaming water was injected into the icy water outside, and after three hours had passed, the thermometer gave the exterior temperature as -6 degrees centigrade.
Two hours later the thermometer gave only -4 degrees.
The thermometer (I have made some observations) falls in winter to 4 degrees Centigrade at the outside, which gives us 24 degrees Reaumur as the maximum, or otherwise 54 degrees Fahrenheit (English scale), not more.
'This shall be my thermometer,' he said to himself.
This idea of a thermometer amused him and succeeded finally in distracting him.
This justified Davy's theory, and more than once I consulted the thermometer with surprise.
My uncle noted every hour the indications of the compass, the chronometer, the aneroid, and the thermometer the very same which he has published in his scientific report of our journey.