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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• With this change, the state program would be able to step in and assist water systems when a problem is detected.
  — The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
• In places like the Perman Basin, the largest oil field on the planet, special sensors on the plane detect methane leaks from oil and gas facilities on the ground.
  — Ben Tracy, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2023
• In the latest attack, air alarms sounded in Kyiv at around 1 a.m. on Sunday as the first wave of Shahed-136 drones streaming toward the city was detected.
  — Andrés R. Martínez, New York Times, 27 May 2023
• Since no spill-over events have been detected, scientists aren’t sure.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 26 Jan. 2024
• Instead, the Mini 12 detects brightness levels and only fires the flash when needed.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
• In 2010, researchers detected them near the Amazon’s forest floor.
  — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
• With a stethoscope below the cuff, heartbeat is detected only after blood begins flowing all the way through the arm.
  — Devabhaktuni Srikrishna, STAT, 15 Aug. 2023
• The vacuum automatically detects what needs to be cleaned and displays the level of mess on the screen.
  — Jessica Comstock, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 May 2023
• While the 2023 study showed the sensor could help amputees detect temperature, the current study was the first to put it to use on a functional prosthetic.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
• According to Gomez, the app has detected otherworldly presences around her in the past.
  — Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 22 Oct. 2023
• When shoots detect heat, the cells also produce more auxin to signal the plant's stalk to grow taller and have its leaves grow smaller and farther apart, and some plants may even change color.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2023
• His original mission was meant to last six months, but a coolant leak in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft was detected after it was docked at the space station.
  — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Later that day, license plate readers in Costa Mesa detected the same plate and an arrest was made.
  — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• Uneven pathways, which are especially hard to detect in dim light, can make someone trip and fall.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• Her work suggests that the salience network detects when something is important to pay attention to and then acts as an off switch for the default mode network.
  — Nora Bradford, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2024
• The Slim model uses laser illumination to detect which areas need the most cleaning, like the dust under your couch or TV stand.
  — Deanna Pai, Glamour, 21 Nov. 2023
• As a result, the air bag system may not properly detect the passenger's presence and weight, and fail to deploy as designed.
  — Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2023
• The hacking activity by the group was first detected two years ago, Microsoft and others said.
  — Joseph Menn, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024