How to Use calibrate in a Sentence

calibrate

verb

• The choice to employ Plaza as the face of the plant-milk spoof was calibrated, of course.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2023
• All the while, Christie and his front-of-the-house team will carefully calibrate the mood of the room.
  — Andy Wang, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2021
• When setting up the Peloton Row, the machine will prompt you to calibrate your form.
  — Angela Moscaritolo, PCMAG, 21 Sep. 2022
• The warmth and the breeze had calibrated to the equilibrium of a gorgeous day.
  — Rick Rojas Emily Kask, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• Scorsese calibrates her place in the film with a delicate sense of form.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• The back-and-forth is perfectly calibrated and sets the tone for the entire arc of Barbie.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024
• Schultz learned how to snowboard over the next few weeks to test and calibrate his prosthetic, and over the next few years of testing fell in love with the sport.
  — Christian Richey, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• Your primary brief wasn’t to calibrate the harms done by hate speech to the climate of your workplace.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2022
• Democrats have to calibrate their platform to win over voters.
  — NBC News, 30 Oct. 2022
• This is Chico Marx level humor, and the kind of line the masterly Mr. Mosley uses to calibrate the mood.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
• Odenkirk and Gould are discussing how to calibrate the intensity of his pleas to make a phone call.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2022
• Scientists have figured out a gene that seems to calibrate how wet or dry your wax is.
  — Henry Ou, The Conversation, 7 Feb. 2022
• Spoelstra said as opponents adjust to the zone, the Heat’s zone has to calibrate to those counters.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2022
• Klay Thompson couldn’t calibrate his jumper all night long.
  — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2022
• What did those shifts mean for you, in terms of calibrating your performance?
  — Tomris Laffly, ELLE, 26 May 2023
• During this approach, Lucy’s scientists will take images of the Earth and the Moon to help calibrate the instruments on the probe.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 14 Oct. 2022
• This smart scale took a few minutes to calibrate itself, but other than that, the setup was simple.
  — Theresa Holland, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
• Keep in Mind The scale needs to be calibrated before use to achieve an accurate reading.
  — Casey Clark, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2023
• With that said, the scale needs to be calibrated prior to the first use in order to obtain an accurate reading.
  — Casey Clark, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2023
• Hamas’s pledge to record and air executions that have yet to take place is new and seems calibrated to incite fear over the barbarism to come.
  — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• And do the samples include igneous rocks to calibrate dating?
  — Marissa Grunes, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
• And even this more simplistic tech will calibrate with the Argonne system.
  — Maddie Ellis, Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
• The task force appeared to be carefully calibrated to avoid that.
  — Shuaib Almosawa, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• But that still leaves open the question of how to calibrate the sanctions — because so far there have been no mass casualties.
  — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• To get the best reading possible, make sure the scale is set up on a sturdy, flat surface, and always calibrate the scale before use.
  — Caroline Thomason, Health, 14 June 2023
• This smart scale took a few minutes to calibrate itself, but other than that, setup was simple.
  — Theresa Holland, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2022
• The setup was also complicated: the student had to place and calibrate infrared sensors around the room.
  — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• Nissan’s approach is to carefully calibrate its systems so the car doesn’t take over.
  — Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2023
• So there was a lot of trial and error for calibrating what, specifically, best served the story.
  — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
• Like our pick above, Sonos’s TruePlay tuning helps to calibrate the speaker’s position with a space.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024