How to Use caliber in a Sentence

caliber

noun

• I was impressed by the high caliber of the team's work.
• The gauge of a shotgun goes down as the caliber goes up.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2022
• How about the caliber of the quarterbacks, and teams in the AFC?
  — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
• The gun was the same brand, color and caliber of the gun used in the shooting.
  — Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 22 Aug. 2022
• Can the Bears add a high-caliber wide receiver in the draft?
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec. 2022
• The Spurs would be glad to have a player of that caliber join them in June.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Apr. 2022
• There wasn’t a free agent pickup of his caliber on the line.
  — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2024
• The who’s-who caliber of this cast is not lost on Booster.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2022
• But even a player of his caliber needs some help from time to time.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2023
• These days, prospects of his caliber tend to get restless.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Dec. 2022
• But, as Counsell noted, none of them are of the caliber of Woodruff.
  — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2023
• The roster, once top-notch, is now hardly the same caliber as decades past.
  — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• So what does a truth-telling comic of his caliber do next?
  — Miriam Katz, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• Cameron confirms that both elk had been shot in the head with the .40 caliber handgun at close range.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 10 Apr. 2024
• And those will turn into wins against those sorts of teams, those high-caliber teams.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2022
• But Bozeman said playing a high-caliber team like the Longhorns taught the Lions a few lessons.
  — Suzi Parker, Arkansas Online, 18 Dec. 2022
• She was shot through the face with a high-caliber bullet through a car windshield.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• There are some stars in this year’s game, but what bothers me most isn’t the caliber of athlete.
  — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2022
• This is one of the deepest positions in the 2022 draft, but the caliber of the top linebackers doesn’t match last year’s class.
  — Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Apr. 2022
• Meanwhile, powering the watch is a new caliber, the HMC 500.
  — Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 20 Nov. 2023
• This is even amazing, the people, the caliber of people.
  — Scientific American Custom Media, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2022
• Of course, this caliber of bag usually comes with a steep price tag to match.
  — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2023
• Equipped with the in-house caliber 854, the nifty piece also displays a second time zone.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2024
• The chance to see two actors of this caliber at the top of their game will, rightly, sell tickets and win hearts.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
• Jim Axelrod: The .40 caliber gun that killed Ted was Ted's.
  — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2024
• After the call, Haynes and Briscoe met with the inmate’s brother, who gave Haynes a .45 caliber firearm.
  — Ngan Ho, Baltimore Sun, 10 June 2022
• The Merkava, the Namer and the Puma all have 7.62 caliber machine guns, Butterworth said.
  — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
• So this is the sort of caliber of pseudoscience, and this is really echoed down through the years.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
• Such over-the-top pieces aren’t for wallflowers, or even the typical watch enthusiast, but there’s no denying the sophistication of their calibers.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2024
• The movements are refurbished vintage caliber UG 1-69 with micro-rotors (a famous movement).
  — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024