How to Use ruler in a Sentence

ruler

noun
  • 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
  • No one was brave enough to approach this Great Dane with a ruler.
    Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 13 May 2024
  • 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
  • At the time there was no India, Pakistan, or British rulers.
    Hazlitt, 17 July 2024
  • 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
  • What the stars are up to: Your sign ruler Saturn is retrograde in Pisces.
    Jennifer Culp, Them, 5 July 2024
  • Iran: For more than four decades, Iran’s rulers have pledged to destroy Israel.
    Andrés R. Martínez, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Your ruler Mars is striding into your 2nd House of Income for the first time in two years.
    Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
  • 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
  • That didn’t seem to make sense, because one coin appeared to bear the visage of a ruler who wouldn’t have been in power at that time.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2024
  • 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
  • Just because the Founders soured on their ruler later in life should not turn the rest of us against this pleasant, efficient system.
    Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
  • 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
  • For instance, do straight-edge rulers on opposite sides of the device – one in millimeters and one in inches – really count as two tools?
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 16 July 2024

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