How to Use detector in a Sentence

detector

noun

• The district has since installed detectors in a second high school.
  — Scott Neuman, NPR, 12 Sep. 2024
• Stan’s services in an attempt to make peace with his past, but not before making Stan submit to a lie-detector test.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2021
• In the video, which does not have audio, the 16-year-old appears to be stopped and told to go back through the detectors multiple times.
  — Janelle Griffith, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024
• All was well until 6:20 a.m. when the music on the motion detector by the closet started to play.
  — Julie Jordan, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
• One operates a metal detector, others are dancing and another peers over the edge of the disk to see if the Earth is flat.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2021
• After the council meeting, Robinson said that many residents have but one carbon monoxide detector in their home.
  — cleveland, 18 Dec. 2021
• Access to an underground, gigantic gleaming steel detector orb is probably a good asset, too.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 Oct. 2024
• Big amplitudes mean highly probable subatomic events, the kind that light up particle detectors like Christmas trees.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
• Along with a fire alarm, it is recommended to have a carbon monoxide detector in the home and to check or change the batteries every six months, the CDC says.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• For that reason, the photons or neutrons cannot be recorded inside the interferometer using an ordinary detector.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2024
• The counterfeit signal can be detected using a signal strength detector, clock information and time intervals.
  — John Giordani, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
• Researchers debuted an 88 percent accurate hate-speech detector and a superior sarcasm detector and may be able to send messages back in time.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
• In math, Shor took home first place for a fake news detector.
  — James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com, 28 Jan. 2022
• The light in the carport ceiling clicked on, from the motion detector.
  — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
• The last two detectors the East Palestine train passed were 19 miles apart.
  — Julie Carr Smyth, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
• But seven out of 10 isn’t the sort of clean sweep that sets off our data detectors.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• At the end of the chip, the researchers placed photo detectors that measured the light beams and revealed the result.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2024
• The detector can be controlled with an app and has an adjustable alarm.
  — Nora Colomer, Fox News, 26 Mar. 2024
• Rods are the brightness detectors and are blind to color.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• The detector recorded the X-ray signals and sent the data to a computer.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
• And then the other issue is what are called hot box detectors.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2023
• But only some of these gamma rays escape the sun and make it to our detectors.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2023
• Where are the best places to put carbon monoxide detectors?
  — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2023
• Sides, 42, got his start on YouTube with a metal detector.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2022
• These particles fall to the Earth in showers that can be observed by detectors on the ground.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Now add a detector to measure which of the two slits the particle passes through.
  — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
• Also, look for other devices that might be in the wrong place—like a smoke detector in the corner of the room instead of the very middle.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2023
• At first these detectors were small, covering a tiny portion of the sky.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 7 June 2024
• This lets the detectors quickly determine if a metal item is a cell phone or a gun.
  — Oscar Gonzalez / Gizmodo, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
• This meant that most of Google’s customers didn’t have enough data to train a good defect detector.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024