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

As the UK's national weather service, the Met Office is the custodian of the Central England Temperature record, the longest running weather record in the world, based on measurements taken using thermometers and other instruments.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025

Examples of these devices include infrared thermometers and vehicle proximity notification systems.

From Science Daily • May 22, 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