temperature
Example Sentences
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When you are the frog in the pot, you sometimes congratulate yourself for surviving the heat, failing to notice the temperature increasing.
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She was still feverish, and her temperature was climbing.
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According to the US specialist newsletter Rare Earth Exchanges, US aerospace firm Lockheed Martin is the biggest American user of samarium, employed to make magnets that can withstand extremely high temperatures.
From Barron's
The findings also provide insight into how responsive the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is to rising temperatures.
From Science Daily
The attack left nearly 2,000 apartment buildings without heating in Kyiv and Kharkiv, with the temperatures dropping to 13 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.