How to Use slide rule in a Sentence

slide rule

noun

• That was a bit of this stereotype of the Asian with a slide rule.
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2020
• Fortunately, the game is filled with people who know their way around a slide rule.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 11 Mar. 2023
• The Germans, using a slide rule, would plot out targets before launch and let a compass guide the rocket in the air.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2017
• The basic office gym—with a handful of treadmills and weight equipment—also is going the way of the slide rule.
  — Keiko Morris, WSJ, 10 June 2018
• The Boeing logo is subtly integrated into the red ring of the slide rule.
  — Carol Besler, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• Rosol took inspiration the school’s shield and the patch its instructors wear, suggesting the colors, the stars, slide rule and orange flash in his scheme.
  — Eric Tegler, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021
• Maddon was ejected in Game 1 at Dodger Stadium after a call at home plate was overturned because of the slide rule.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2017
• When a violation of the slide rule occurs, the offending runner and the batter-runner will be called out.
  — Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2022
• One indication of that passion is a giant slide rule hanging on a stair wall on the first floor of his trinity.
  — Sally Friedman, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Here’s video of the play eventually ruled as a slide rule violation.
  — Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2022
• Hayward craves distraction and Smeathers engages all his debates, whether the subject is the NFL slide rule or a compound math problem.
  — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• The decline of the art of memory and slide rule illustrates the power of this sort of technology to be progressive.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2011
• Think of an armillary sphere like a circular slide rule with four separate axes.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 Jan. 2020
• In a twist of irony, Simmons was actually determined to have violated the slide rule in the fourth inning as Odor tried to turn a double play.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 3 June 2018
• It’s 13mm thick, with a bi-directional platinum bezel that sports a classic circular slide rule.
  — Matthew Catellier, Forbes, 7 July 2022
• The eye-catching cream dial, which mirrors a cockpit’s navigation screen, pairs black subdials with a red-and-white slide rule.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2023
• Many of us would now struggle to perform the mental arithmetic which our parents and grandparents learned, and would be stumped if asked to perform calculations with a slide rule.
  — Calum Chace, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2023
• Johnson and her colleagues used only a slide rule, pencils, and a desktop calculator to calculate the path needed to get astronauts to the moon and to bring the group back home safely.
  — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 24 Feb. 2020
• Following the races within the race often requires the use of a calculator (or, for those Tour traditionalists, a slide rule).
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 5 Aug. 2022
• But even without a pocket calculator or slide rule, Cassidy is sensitive to the need for more even-strength production.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2021
• The pitch clocks, slide rules, protective netting, limited mound visits and three-batter minimums are the least of baseball’s worries.
  — Jeff Bailey, The Denver Post, 23 Dec. 2019
• When pocket calculators were developed in the early 1970s, their slide rule business got crushed by Texas Instruments and Hewlett Packard.
  — Neil Santuria, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Oct. 2017
• By that time, small electronic calculators became affordable and quickly displaced both the Curta and the slide rule.
  — Dan Falk, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2021
• Dwyer recalled that because the students did not have calculators until late in the year, Bjorkquist taught them how to do complicated calculations on a slide rule.
  — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News, 1 Sep. 2017
• Architects have ditched their slide rules for computer software, but big buildings don’t get constructed without them.
  — Liz Hoffman and Telis Demos, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2018
• Though Johnson herself never ventured into the cosmos, her formulas—scrawled on paper with a pencil and a slide rule—will continue to power spaceflight for decades to come.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2020
• The watch, known for being the choice of pilots throughout its 70-year history, is equipped with Breitling’s iconic bidirectional rotating bezel with a circular slide rule.
  — Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 1 July 2022
• The company started in 1761 when Kaspar Faber, a German cabinet maker by trade, decided to get into making slide rules.
  — Neil Santuria, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Oct. 2017
• Like tossing a slide rule, aggressive substitution should just happen.
  — Peter Tertzakian, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2017
• Interference for the purpose of breaking up a double play (force play slide rule): Runners sliding into the base and deviating from their slide path to force fielders to make difficult throws to complete double plays.
  — Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 16 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024