How to Use barometer in a Sentence

barometer

noun
  • 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
  • That’s a much better barometer of where the team stands.
    Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Anyone can go out and beat a bad team or take the series, but this is the barometer.
    Joe Noga, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • And then, the 28-year veteran strength coach gave a barometer for how much of each.
    Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
  • Your barometer had a small amount of carbon subsidy, but more on the tax side.
    Time, 6 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • This game will serve as a barometer for where the Rams really are.
    Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • There is no greater barometer for success than the consent of the people.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • That means Lake Meade isn’t just a barometer of how much rain has fallen.
    Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 27 July 2022
  • What’s your barometer for judging whether a new song is good or bad?
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Here comes that Stokes phrasing again about not looking at the endgame as the only barometer.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The Cardinals showed some fight against the Buccaneers, but how much of a barometer is that?
    Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Is 'right track/wrong track' still a good election barometer?
    Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Many people view the price of gas as a key economic barometer.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
  • There’s always a special beauty about this rite of passage, end-of-first year barometer of the times.
    Sarah Mower, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The Hang Seng Index, the main barometer of the city’s $4 trillion equities market, is down 29% this year.
    Weilun Soon, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2022
  • Landolfi said the Dragons use Walsh as a barometer on offense.
    Trevor Hass, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Nov. 2022
  • If social media is any kind of barometer, Aztecs fans have seen enough of Burmeister.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Hologram Janeway, on the other hand, has a shorter barometer.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 27 Oct. 2022
  • But the count is nonetheless a barometer of the scope of the crisis and helps drive a host of policy and funding decisions.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2023
  • While Biden’s approval has been mired in the low 40s, his job ratings turned out to be a deceptive election barometer.
    Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Upscale food trucks, that barometer of tech bro abundance, are few and far between.
    John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2022
  • So the men would sail with the accessible technology of the era: a radio, a windup chronometer, and a barometer.
    Longreads, 5 Oct. 2022
  • It’s our most trusted and accurate barometer of student achievement across the country, from state to state, from group to group, and over time.
    Jonathan Wai, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The Treasury yield curve—the difference between yields on long-term bonds and short-term notes—is a barometer for economic health.
    Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The teachers had set up weather-station equipment that a researcher might use, such as a compass and a barometer.
    Emma Green, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Shares of Maersk, which are perceived as a barometer of the health of the economy due to the company’s exposure to the movement of goods around the world, fell nearly 6%.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The public, Hanse said, often fixates on scores as being the barometer of a golf course’s quality.
    Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 29 May 2023

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