thermometer

Example Sentences

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"Imagine TRPM8 as a microscopic thermometer inside your body," said Hyuk-Joon Lee, a postdoctoral fellow in Seok-Yong Lee's laboratory at Duke University.

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026

The box also lacked a thermometer that could alert the medical team to the low temperature.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

"How pitiful," he said, lowering a thermometer into the water.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

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

“I think she gave me cholera,” Liyana mumbled, after falling asleep with a thermometer in her mouth.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye