How to Use detector in a Sentence

detector

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  • There has never been a more important time to have a good BS detector.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 11 July 2024
  • Here’s why Straight out of ‘Ghostbusters,’ do ghost detectors really work?
    — Hartford Courant, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The day care center did not have a working carbon monoxide detector in the building, Christopher confirmed.
    — Maria Pasquini, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The funding helps continue metal-detector efforts that began during the last school year and have remained a priority.
    — Lisa J. Huriash, Sun Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2022
  • For 11 minutes, its on-board radiation detector watched as levels doubled, as if the aircraft had flown through a cloud of radiation.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
  • When Rick does aim the probability detector at Jerry, the readings warn that the fortune might actually come true.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • To improve the road’s safety measures without damaging the tree, the girls install a motion detector that sets off a flashing light to notify drivers when people are crossing the street.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The diagnosis is often made clinically, but can be confirmed with a gastric emptying study, where a person eats a radioactive meal and the progress of the food is followed with a detector.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • At the end of the chip, the researchers placed photo detectors that measured the light beams and revealed the result.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2024
  • 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
  • At first these detectors were small, covering a tiny portion of the sky.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 7 June 2024
  • 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 rowhouse the Guatemalan family was living in lacked a smoke detector and a valid rental license.
    — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 31 Mar. 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
  • With a bed sheet attached to a smoke detector, a 47-year-old man who’d been arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge committed suicide last November in a Miami-Dade County jail.
    — Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 12 June 2024

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