How to Use detect in a Sentence

detect

verb

• The test is used to detect the presence of alcohol in the blood.
• This type of cancer is difficult to detect in its early stages.
• Turn on weightlifting mode, do a curl, and Google would detect it.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2022
• No cases of the new strain have been detected in the United States.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 16 Aug. 2024
• Of the three, cutaneous is the most common form detected both in the U.S. and around the world, Cama said.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 29 Oct. 2023
• The long-range weapons travel more than five times the speed of sound and are harder to detect and intercept.
  — Eve Brennan, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
• Mammograms detect four out of five types of breast cancer, but Munn's fell in the 20% missed.
  — Andrea Mandell, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2024
• This warming has been detected in both the atmosphere and the ocean.
  — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
• And the Equinox can detect many types of metal, including gold nuggets.
  — Bobbi Dempsey, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
• The strips cannot detect how much fentanyl is present, and there may be some fentanyl analogues that the strips do not pick up.
  — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• It’s also supposed to detect fires as small as 5 x 5 meters (the size of a classroom).
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 16 Sep. 2024
• Customers who did not detect the smell of diesel should open all faucets, hot and cold, and leave them running for five minutes.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 27 July 2023
• Experts said a smartphone app that can help detect stroke symptoms is a great idea.
  — Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
• Since then, at least nine states have detected cow infections from the virus.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 3 May 2024
• When the weather is cold, and our lungs breathe in cold air, our body isn’t as sensitive in detecting the cold virus.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2023
• When new variants emerge, there’s often concern that at-home tests won’t be able to detect them.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 31 Oct. 2022
• Rescue ships pinged the ocean with sonar in the hopes of detecting the shape of the vehicle, and listened for it with microphones.
  — WIRED, 22 June 2023
• The safety sensors can only detect weight over three pounds.
  — Katherine Alex Beaven, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
• But many other health threats that are out there, and the CDC is designed to be that asset for this country to detect and respond to threats.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• Evidence of the testosterone surge from musth is can be detected in the blood and urine tests of living elephants.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 May 2023
• Those were the cosmic rays Hess detected, and are the ones most likely to show up in a museum cloud chamber.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Nov. 2023
• Once the intent is detected, the response from the bot for each intent is crafted by a human.
  — Jonathan Rosenberg, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
• When a weapon is detected, an alert is sent to a tablet monitored by a pair of NYPD officers.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune, 27 July 2024
• The idea is to quickly detect and locate transmission line faults.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2023
• It was detected roughly 60 miles away less than a minute later.
  — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 26 July 2023
• Antennae atop their heads detect and release odors to find food, attack prey and protect their young, writes the Post.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2023
• That can now be done thanks to Grail, a company with a mission to detect cancer early, when it can still be cured.
  — John Tamny, wsj.com, 27 Apr. 2023
• Right or wrong, old-fashioned or not, partly true or entirely true — if the culture has a pulse, the Q Score can still detect it.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
• Monitor metrics that matter: Use dashboards to track key indicators like the time to detect and respond to threats, helping to fine-tune your strategies.
  — Andrew Hay, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
• The features include letting users name specific people or vehicles the camera sees and get notifications about them, or to train its cameras to detect and notify them of events like a sprinkler turning on or garage door opening.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025