Sentence examples for as a thermometer from inspiring English sources

"The number and way women are killed serves as a thermometer of violence and impunity".

The rules follow the discovery in April of a Gloucester County day care center whose building was contaminated with mercury from its former use as a thermometer factory.

The vote today will not affect her grip on the presidency, but it will serve as a thermometer gauging the popular mood.

One even looked forward to the invention of a hedonimeter, a "psychophysical machine" that would record the ups and downs of a man's feelings just as a thermometer might plot his temperature.

GE's design gurus predict that a patient's overall condition will soon be measured as easily as a thermometer measures his temperature.Such technologies have long seemed promising; recently the promise has begun to be borne out.

Shaped like an inverted T, the Reuters sign is ideally suited for use as a thermometer, since it has an exceptionally tall and skinny stem, 13 by 169 feet, under which is the balcony of the Instinet president's office and a 28-by-46-foot 28-by-46-foot 28-by-46-foot 28-by-46-foot

In addition, strips of a second glass can be fused to the primary glass, as in a thermometer, by drawing a stream from an auxiliary melting pot.

Measuring the flow of heat energy on a large-scale surface could be as simple as using a thermometer.

Keep track of the foods' temperatures with a thermometer, as well.

The process allows the forming of complex cross sections, including oval bore shapes such as that of a thermometer.

The Department of Agriculture recommends cooking meat to an internal temperature of 160 degrees Fahrenheit, as measured by a thermometer, to ensure against salmonella poisoning.