How to Use detector in a Sentence

detector

noun

• And the amygdala — the threat detector toward the base of our brains — fires.
  — Rachel Carlson, NPR, 20 Nov. 2024
• In math, Shor took home first place for a fake news detector.
  — James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com, 28 Jan. 2022
• The light in the carport ceiling clicked on, from the motion detector.
  — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
• The last two detectors the East Palestine train passed were 19 miles apart.
  — Julie Carr Smyth, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
• But seven out of 10 isn’t the sort of clean sweep that sets off our data detectors.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• At the end of the chip, the researchers placed photo detectors that measured the light beams and revealed the result.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2024
• The detector can be controlled with an app and has an adjustable alarm.
  — Nora Colomer, Fox News, 26 Mar. 2024
• This detector position would have to change as the moon moves and the angle of the mirror changes.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 12 Sep. 2021
• Rods are the brightness detectors and are blind to color.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• The detector recorded the X-ray signals and sent the data to a computer.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
• And then the other issue is what are called hot box detectors.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2023
• But only some of these gamma rays escape the sun and make it to our detectors.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2023
• In the video, which does not have audio, the 16-year-old appears to be stopped and told to go back through the detectors multiple times.
  — Janelle Griffith, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024
• Where are the best places to put carbon monoxide detectors?
  — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2023
• Sides, 42, got his start on YouTube with a metal detector.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2022
• These particles fall to the Earth in showers that can be observed by detectors on the ground.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Now add a detector to measure which of the two slits the particle passes through.
  — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
• Also, look for other devices that might be in the wrong place—like a smoke detector in the corner of the room instead of the very middle.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2023
• At first these detectors were small, covering a tiny portion of the sky.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 7 June 2024
• The bracelets, which are 14-karat gold at both locations, will not tarnish and can be worn in the ocean, the pool, the shower — and even through a metal detector.
  — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Oct. 2021
• This lets the detectors quickly determine if a metal item is a cell phone or a gun.
  — Oscar Gonzalez / Gizmodo, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
• This meant that most of Google’s customers didn’t have enough data to train a good defect detector.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2022
• All was well until 6:20 a.m. when the music on the motion detector by the closet started to play.
  — Julie Jordan, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
• Public figures are served notice that the media’s sharpest bull detector is back on the job.
  — David Bauder, Twin Cities, 13 Feb. 2024
• There has never been a more important time to have a good BS detector.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 11 July 2024
• The rowhouse the Guatemalan family was living in lacked a smoke detector and a valid rental license.
  — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 31 Mar. 2024
• The first test, which was done the day of Eilee’s Nov. 6 email to Bonebrake, showed styrene concentrations that hit the limits of the air detector at 58 parts per billion.
  — USA Today, 30 Mar. 2023
• Turns out a man with a metal detector saw her social media plea for help — and somehow found that ring at the bottom of the ocean.
  — Fox News, 21 Aug. 2022
• Even if a scientist is half the world away, their infrasound detector may be able to pick it up.
  — Robin Andrews, Wired, 29 Nov. 2021
• When top deepfake detectors only catch the phonies 75% of the time, according to reports, being vigilant against fraud is vital.
  — Chris Westfall, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024