Sentence examples for in a thermometer from inspiring English sources

It was like looking for the mercury in a thermometer".

Any substance that somehow changes with alterations in its temperature can be used as the basic component in a thermometer.

Duval was six under par over the final six holes, a furious finish that propelled him up the leader board like mercury rising in a thermometer.

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.

Nearly eight months after the first bombs fell on Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan, the effort to stamp out other potential safe havens is like putting mercury back in a thermometer.

That night I finally invested in a thermometer and took my temperature during one of the nightly fevers that for just a few minutes at the start were a welcome relief from chills that had me shaking under five layers of clothing, ski cap on my head.

In addition, a thermometer was inserted in the fiberglass insulator to monitor temperature changes, which were checked at each time interval of the measurements.

The VAS is presented in a thermometer-like fashion and records the self-rated health of a participant on scale from 'best imaginable health state' (100) to 'worst imaginable health state' (0) [ 28, 29].

In addition, a thermometer was placed inside the rectum.

"What's Mummy dot?" the little fellow asks as his mother advances with an automatic in one hand and a thermometer in the other.

He tries to extract an apology from House, who left Tritter in an examination room with a thermometer in his rectum.