How to Use barometer in a Sentence
barometer
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That’s a little bit of a barometer, too: how the vibe was walking out of the space.
—Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2023
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The Angels, who have lost four straight and 10 of 13, aren’t a good barometer.
—BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2021
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The Week 4 game against Tom Brady and the Bucs will serve as a much better barometer.
—BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2021
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It’s not a great barometer by which to figure out the truth.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2022
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The song spilled over to TikTok, a new barometer for whether a song is a hit, and caught fire.
—New York Times, 7 July 2021
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That’s a much better barometer of where the team stands.
—Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2022
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Your phone needs to have a barometer as well as an IP rating for the app to work.
—Jacob Siegal, BGR, 7 July 2021
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It’s my regular hot flash, and it’s the barometer of how the rest of my night will go.
—Carey Rossi, Good Housekeeping, 10 Jan. 2023
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Anyone can go out and beat a bad team or take the series, but this is the barometer.
—Joe Noga, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2022
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If home runs and steals are the barometer, there aren’t many MLB teams more fun than the Orioles right now.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2023
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This track Sets the heaviness barometer for the rest of the album.
—Jon Weigell, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2021
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And then, the 28-year veteran strength coach gave a barometer for how much of each.
—Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
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Your barometer had a small amount of carbon subsidy, but more on the tax side.
—Time, 6 Aug. 2023
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Turnovers have been a barometer for Phoenix in this series.
—Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 14 May 2022
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But the club’s next three games spread over seven days will serve as a barometer for coach Nate Miller’s club.
—Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
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The race will also serve as a barometer of sorts on the margin in the overall Senate.
—Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2024
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This game will serve as a barometer for where the Rams really are.
—Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
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There is no greater barometer for success than the consent of the people.
—Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
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That means Lake Meade isn’t just a barometer of how much rain has fallen.
—Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 27 July 2022
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There’s been no public polling, but fundraising provides one barometer of the state of the race.
—Bryn Stole | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 17 Oct. 2020
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Brandon Ingram will be the barometer to gauge the pressure and progress on the team this season.
—Christopher Dodson, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
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Lake Powell serves as the barometer for the river’s health in the upper basin, and Lake Mead has that job in the lower basin.
—Felicia Fonseca, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2022
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What’s your barometer for judging whether a new song is good or bad?
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
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There's no need to amplify the role of some award as a barometer for true achievements.
—Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
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Here comes that Stokes phrasing again about not looking at the endgame as the only barometer.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
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For the rest of the war, the value of the greenback became an exquisitely sensitive barometer of the prospects of the Union war effort.
—Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
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The Cardinals showed some fight against the Buccaneers, but how much of a barometer is that?
—Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2022
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The next month could be an important barometer for how next year will go.
—Aman Kidwai, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2021
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This price level would be just below the 50-day moving average, a trend barometer which often serves as short-term support.
—David Keller, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025
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Set against a backdrop of pro-Palestine demonstrations that protested against sponsor L’Oréal and featuring runway photographers stuffed in cages, this year’s show was a barometer of how current events are translating to students’ work.
—Violet Goldstone, WWD, 14 Jan. 2025
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