thermometer
Example Sentences
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"How pitiful," he said, lowering a thermometer into the water.
From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026
The bundles include clothing for newborns to six-month-olds, blankets, bibs, muslin cloths, a thermometer, a bilingual book and a playmat.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026
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
I knew that I was sick, but I didn’t think that I was sick enough to bust a thermometer.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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