How to Use barometer in a Sentence

barometer

noun

• This isn’t to say the fan vote doesn’t serve as some kind of barometer.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2026
• Joint practices can serve as a barometer for a team.
  — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
• What’s your barometer for judging whether a new song is good or bad?
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• Is 'right track/wrong track' still a good election barometer?
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2022
• Stock prices are always a good barometer.
  — Jess Collen, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
• The next month could be an important barometer for how next year will go.
  — Aman Kidwai, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2021
• Your barometer had a small amount of carbon subsidy, but more on the tax side.
  — Time, 6 Aug. 2023
• Urban is not quite sure what that will look like yet, but his barometer is simple.
  — James Grebey, Time, 8 May 2026
• Anyone can go out and beat a bad team or take the series, but this is the barometer.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2022
• Virginia has proven to be a good barometer of midterm elections.
  — Harry Enten, CNN, 25 Sep. 2021
• That’s what makes pilots the best barometers for how well a piece of luggage works.
  — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2026
• The pace of issuance or closures is not a barometer of the health of the business.
  — Ari I. Weinberg, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2019
• It is often used as a barometer of the state of the economy.
  — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
• Trump often refers to the stock market as a barometer of his success in his first year.
  — Sarah Min, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2026
• This game will serve as a barometer for where the Rams really are.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• The benchmark is used as a barometer for mortgage rates and auto loans.
  — Jessica Menton, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2020
• There's no need to amplify the role of some award as a barometer for true achievements.
  — Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• There is no greater barometer for success than the consent of the people.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• This is not a high school reunion, which often serves as a strange barometer of success.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 22 Aug. 2025
• That means Lake Meade isn’t just a barometer of how much rain has fallen.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 27 July 2022
• Your phone needs to have a barometer as well as an IP rating for the app to work.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 7 July 2021
• But the barometer for success is our defense and our effort.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2026
• There’s been no public polling, but fundraising provides one barometer of the state of the race.
  — Bryn Stole | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 17 Oct. 2020
• The only difference is that the white world has more barometers.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
• And then, the 28-year veteran strength coach gave a barometer for how much of each.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
• The yield on the 10-year note is a barometer for mortgage rates and other types of loans.
  — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2026
• Audio is the barometer of the planet.
  — Heather Abbott, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
• But a simple barometer is a mere internet search away.
  — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 19 Jan. 2026
• The song spilled over to TikTok, a new barometer for whether a song is a hit, and caught fire.
  — New York Times, 7 July 2021
• Here comes that Stokes phrasing again about not looking at the endgame as the only barometer.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024