How to Use detector in a Sentence

detector

noun

• The last two detectors the East Palestine train passed were 19 miles apart.
  — Julie Carr Smyth, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
• But seven out of 10 isn’t the sort of clean sweep that sets off our data detectors.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• The detector can be controlled with an app and has an adjustable alarm.
  — Nora Colomer, Fox News, 26 Mar. 2024
• Rods are the brightness detectors and are blind to color.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• The detector recorded the X-ray signals and sent the data to a computer.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
• And then the other issue is what are called hot box detectors.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2023
• But only some of these gamma rays escape the sun and make it to our detectors.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2023
• Where are the best places to put carbon monoxide detectors?
  — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2023
• These particles fall to the Earth in showers that can be observed by detectors on the ground.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Now add a detector to measure which of the two slits the particle passes through.
  — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
• Also, look for other devices that might be in the wrong place—like a smoke detector in the corner of the room instead of the very middle.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2023
• This lets the detectors quickly determine if a metal item is a cell phone or a gun.
  — Oscar Gonzalez / Gizmodo, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
• Public figures are served notice that the media’s sharpest bull detector is back on the job.
  — David Bauder, Twin Cities, 13 Feb. 2024
• The first test, which was done the day of Eilee’s Nov. 6 email to Bonebrake, showed styrene concentrations that hit the limits of the air detector at 58 parts per billion.
  — USA Today, 30 Mar. 2023
• Be sure to have a working fire alarm and carbon monoxide detectors.
  — Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• If the player has set up their maze in a sufficiently clever way, the click of the detector that has the photon will reveal the referee’s choice.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 27 Jan. 2023
• After the pulse travels to the outside of the tube, the ions and electrons are rapidly reabsorbed into the gas and the detector resets itself.
  — Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2022
• Doctors are calling for bans; schools have set up vape detectors.
  — WIRED, 19 Nov. 2023
• Yet another headache for Tian was the number of crafty students finding ways around the detector.
  — Christopher Beam, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
• The hearing on Friday will focus on tank car safety and the trackside detectors.
  — Josh Funk, ajc, 23 June 2023
• The researchers expect to find more as the transient detector continues its search.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2023
• Board was about to wrap up for the day when his metal detector picked something up in a field in Dorset, a county in southwestern England.
  — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
• Friends co-founder Tina Charles waved a metal detector over the dirt along Lebanon Cemetery’s northern treeline.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 6 Nov. 2022
• The last time the river approached the record was 2012, the same year Bryant got his first metal detector, so this is his first time exploring the river at low levels.
  — Keely Brewer, Journal Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2022
• If this detector goes off when nothing ironic has been said, well, then, that’s—ironic!
  — Bob Odenkirk, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• These devices may emit carbon dioxide (going back to the earlier tip to make sure your detectors are ready to go).
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
• The detectors are designed not to alert the crew until there is a 200-degree rise in the temperature detected.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 4 Mar. 2023
• Keep your speed and your speeding tickets in check with Escort’s flagship radar/laser detector.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 15 Aug. 2023
• The researcher used a bat detector to listen in on the rats’ ultrasonic voices.
  — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
• Every apartment or dwelling unit should be equipped with at least one CO detector, which should be tested every six months.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024