How to Use calibrate in a Sentence

calibrate

verb

• Think of ovens, and how different brands will heat differently or how maybe they aren’t calibrated exactly.
  — James P. Dewan, chicagotribune.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• Used to calibrate sellers’ vessels for selling liquids such as wine and oil, the measuring table is only the third of its kind found to date in the Jerusalem area.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2020
• Baseball’s moral compass, which is rarely properly calibrated in the first place, has shattered because of electronic sign stealing.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2020
• Satellites can calibrate using global surface data to improve forecasts.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 4 Dec. 2019
• The result is that Butterworth—who puts plays together like machines, calibrated for passion or pathos at the pull of a certain lever—has less to hide behind.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
• If the test had been done, engineers likely would have realized the vane was calibrated incorrectly by 21 degrees.
  — New York Times, 24 Nov. 2019
• Right now, the synthetic hosts are calibrated for conversations only in English.
  — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2024
• Adding to the complexity is that each data center is unique, so a model specific to each facility must be developed and calibrated.
  — Karl Freund, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
• But Coyne had more experience traversing the crowd in a giant hamster ball and dodging dancers in animal costumes than calibrating his performances there for home audio.
  — John Wenzel, The Know, 28 Nov. 2019
• The choice to employ Plaza as the face of the plant-milk spoof was calibrated, of course.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2023
• All the while, Christie and his front-of-the-house team will carefully calibrate the mood of the room.
  — Andy Wang, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2021
• Let the door calibrate and test the lock using the app to lock and unlock your door.
  — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 15 Oct. 2021
• Usefully, this worked straight out of the box, without the need to calibrate.
  — New Atlas, 12 July 2024
• When setting up the Peloton Row, the machine will prompt you to calibrate your form.
  — Angela Moscaritolo, PCMAG, 21 Sep. 2022
• The warmth and the breeze had calibrated to the equilibrium of a gorgeous day.
  — Rick Rojas Emily Kask, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• Scorsese calibrates her place in the film with a delicate sense of form.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• The Coast Guard report said the crew aboard the Agios Dimitrios failed to calibrate a component of the main engine.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2024
• The back-and-forth is perfectly calibrated and sets the tone for the entire arc of Barbie.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024
• Schultz learned how to snowboard over the next few weeks to test and calibrate his prosthetic, and over the next few years of testing fell in love with the sport.
  — Christian Richey, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• The team will cross calibrate the data of both satellites over the next year before Jason-3's mission ends.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 Nov. 2020
• In a challenge trial, the first step is to calibrate the virus dose the volunteers will be given.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2020
• Be sure to read through the instructions to calibrate the app for your phone properly.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2021
• Did the two of you calibrate each one together, or was that all her own instinct?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 July 2024
• Your primary brief wasn’t to calibrate the harms done by hate speech to the climate of your workplace.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2022
• Democrats have to calibrate their platform to win over voters.
  — NBC News, 30 Oct. 2022
• Cliff is a main character in the story; Lee is a device set up to calibrate Cliff’s strength.
  — Danny Chau, The Atlantic, 22 June 2020
• This is Chico Marx level humor, and the kind of line the masterly Mr. Mosley uses to calibrate the mood.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
• Odenkirk and Gould are discussing how to calibrate the intensity of his pleas to make a phone call.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2022
• Courage and bravery are knowing when to act, when to redirect, when to calibrate, when to push.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 2 June 2020
• Scientists have figured out a gene that seems to calibrate how wet or dry your wax is.
  — Henry Ou, The Conversation, 7 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024