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
• The guard turned off the alarm only to later spot one of the thieves through the motion detector.
  — NBC News, 29 June 2021
• In math, Shor took home first place for a fake news detector.
  — James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com, 28 Jan. 2022
• Wilson claimed the gun and drugs weren’t his, and passed a lie-detector test, his lawyers said.
  — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
• There were no bullet holes and a scan of the cow by a metal detector turned up none.
  — Garrett Andrews, oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2021
• 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
• My bat detector opened up a whole new dimension to the creatures of the night.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2021
• 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
• About a month after Haught’s death, the police asked Grossheim to take a lie-detector test about all five deaths.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Plus pass through the metal detector and maybe get sniffed by Shamrock, the bomb-sniffing dog.
  — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2021
• 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
• To create their virus detector, the researchers cut and shaped the gold leaf into electrodes.
  — Eva Amsen, Forbes, 7 June 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
• The vacuum also has a Cliff Detect feature that prevents it from falling down stairs and a dirt detector to identify spots that need a deeper clean.
  — Lauren Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2025
• The new telescope's infrared detectors have to be kept super cold, so the instrument is housed inside three concentric cones atop a set of mirrors that protect it from the Sun's energy and the spacecraft's own heat.
  — Ari Daniel, NPR, 9 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 14 Mar 2025