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
With QGP reaching temperatures of several trillion Kelvins, the challenge was to find a "thermometer" capable of observing it without interference.
From Science Daily • Oct. 29, 2025
The walls are almost entirely covered in Dodgers memorabilia: yearbooks, programs, newspapers, magazine covers, advertisements, record albums, even a thermometer reading “1988 World Champions,” with portraits of Vin Scully, Don Drysdale and Ross Porter.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2025
When she returned to the man in the first bed, she took his thermometer and recorded his temperature, and then moved on to the next bed and continued around the ward again.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing thermometer
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