How to Use ruler in a Sentence

ruler

noun

• This ruler shows inches and centimeters.
• In a home setting, there’s no need to take out your ruler.
  — G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
• Use a ruler to draw a plus sign and then an X (like a compass).
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Nov. 2023
• Iran’s ruler Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1936 banned the hijab as part of his efforts to mirror the West.
  — Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2023
• Add a few dots of paint to a piece of paper and then use a flat surface, such as a ruler, to drag the paint across it.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2023
• The video ends with the snake outside the car engine, held between Graham's hand and her ruler.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2023
• Iran: For more than four decades, Iran’s rulers have pledged to destroy Israel.
  — Andrés R. Martínez, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
• Test Kitchen Tip: Double-check headspace called for with a ruler; measure from the top of the jelly to the top of the container rim.
  — Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Mar. 2023
• Place the ruler flat on top of your wrist perpendicular to your arm.
  — Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 13 June 2023
• For centuries, students have been whipped or struck by rulers and paddles.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• Al-Shafi’i was buried in Cairo’s City of the Dead, an area that has long served as the final resting place for rulers, scholars and commoners.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2023
• But Al Jazeera, owned by the rulers of Qatar, has done the most to disseminate images of the devastation caused by the air strikes.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• But before Facebook could break up with him, the 70-year-old strongman ruler swiftly ditched the platform first.
  — Time, 5 July 2023
• Bad Bunny, meanwhile, collects his 13th No. 1, tying Shakira for the fourth-most rulers on the list.
  — Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2023
• The wide variety of wildlife sacrifice was seen as a status symbol for the Han rulers.
  — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• She has been targeted for kidnapping and murder by the rulers in Tehran.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Mar. 2024
• With the new ruler, Shakira improves her career total of Latin Airplay No. 1s to 21.
  — Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 15 Nov. 2023
• The song fills in the audience about the kingdom and its ruler, and what happens to wishes that Magnifico collects.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Dec. 2023
• Soon after, your Ascendant ruler, Mars, enters Pisces on the 22nd.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2024
• After that section of the city became part of East Germany in 1949, the country’s rulers demolished it to signal their break with the past.
  — Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2023
• Though Monaco is the second-smallest country in the world, its ruler has major power.
  — Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023
• The Egyptian ruler is said to have dipped her sails in perfume to attract suitors during her travels.
  — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 24 Jan. 2024
• When the city was at its height, the temple was home to royal tombs and stone monuments dedicated to past rulers.
  — Bylizzie Wade, science.org, 30 Mar. 2023
• The working assumption among most Russian watchers is that Putin will be ruler for life.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• The castle served as the home of Poland’s kings starting around 960 A.D. when the country’s first historical ruler chose the hill for his residence.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
• The entire border acts as a ruler, too, and includes both inches and centimeters.
  — Rachel Simon, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Dec. 2023
• Borobudur was later uncovered in 1814 by Thomas Raffles, the British ruler of Java.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
• According to one of the Greek legends, there once was a mighty king named Oenomaus, a ruler of a powerful kingdom.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
• Originally built as a church where rulers of the empire were crowned, it was later converted to a mosque.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2023
• Its exact placement was mostly up to the current ruler, which caused the Roman calendar and solar year to slip out of sync.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 22 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024