How to Use pedometer in a Sentence

pedometer

noun
  • Many schools demand the use of pedometers and selfies to verify the dates took place.
    Mary Ryu, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
  • Those who submit their journals at the end of the challenge have the chance to win a pedometer or a walking pole.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • There was a time when wearable fitness trackers meant a simple pedometer.
    Julie Gallagher, Wired, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The app uses the Android phone's pedometer to count the user's steps.
    Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The activities caused sales of pedometers to surge.
    Brian Santo, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Your pedometer or fitness tracker may measure this.
    Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 27 Oct. 2025
  • No fees are involved, and each participant will be given a pedometer to keep.
    Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Children will wear a small device called a talk pedometer, which detects the number of words the child hears every day.
    Anna Beahm | [email protected], al, 25 Sep. 2019
  • If someone does choose to go this route, a pedometer, smartphone, or other device, can be a useful way to track steps.
    Julia Landwehr, Health, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Use a fitness tracker or pedometer to track your progress and stay motivated.
    Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Everyone who signs up for the program receives a pedometer and a bag to be stuffed over time with goodies like stretch bands and stress balls.
    Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Walk as part of your errands, park just a little farther away, take the stairs where available and slowly the pedometer will tick up.
    Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Participants were asked to wear pedometers to track their daily steps and keep a walking diary.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 19 June 2024
  • This acts like a super-robust internal pedometer that keeps tracking even when sensors are noisy.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Walking around each room while pushing a vacuum or broom is guaranteed to add some steps to your pedometer -- and leave you with clean floors.
    cleveland, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The point of the experiment was to test whether or not ants used internal pedometers to help navigate back to their nests.
    Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 29 Apr. 2020
  • This pedometer built into your smartphone is great for keeping track of steps and activity throughout the day.
    Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Good Housekeeping, 5 May 2020
  • Hoggarth, who at 47 had her own health issues, including high cholesterol, glanced at the pedometer on her wrist.
    Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Who knew that those first pedometers would turn into a cultural normality?
    Cathy Hackl, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Fontaine has earmarked money to purchase pedometers for students in grades 2, 3, and 4.
    Denise Coffey, courant.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Some people on the trading floor would wear pedometers and log between six to eight miles of steps daily by walking between different stock panels.
    Krystal Hur, CNN, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The bags also contained a pedometer to encourage exercise and chewing gum.
    Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2017
  • Smartphones, fitness trackers and pedometers can track changes in these accelerations to count how many steps a person takes throughout the day.
    Ben Finio, Scientific American, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Pedometers proved that the daily distance was best counted in miles; some nurses averaged 8-10 per shift.
    Jeanne Kisacky, Smithsonian, 14 June 2017
  • To track your mileage and keep yourself motivated, consider buying a pedometer.
    Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 3 June 2020
  • For decades, pedometers have counted our steps and offered insights into mobility.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The Zoe Pro has a wider and taller pedometer platform, offering users more space to stand and an intuitive entrance to the scanner.
    Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Many of the products marketed to parents include some texting, phone call and pedometer features, but one of their major selling points is safety.
    Nicole Daniels, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • With Ja Morant leading the break, these Grizz get their cardio and close their watches’ exercise rings (do bears wear pedometers?
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Beyond the Ida collars, other tech start-ups make cow pedometers, robot milkers, tail sensors and electroshock collars that can stop or shift a herd.
    Drew Harwell, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018

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