How to Use detector in a Sentence

detector

noun

• Crime scene technicians failed to find shell casings from Ocran’s gun in three different metal detector sweeps of the scene.
  — baltimoresun.com, 12 Oct. 2021
• While their beam was mostly muon type neutrinos, their detector also flagged the passage of electron type neutrinos.
  — Don Lincoln, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• The magnet would turn any incoming axions into X-ray photons, which would then get picked up by a detector placed at the back end of the magnet.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Oct. 2021
• 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
• An upgraded metal detector with two lanes is so efficient that several people can walk through at once, Hurt said.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Oct. 2021
• Still, the authors of the new research stressed that further work is needed to evaluate any wearable as a Covid-19 detector.
  — Maddie Bender, STAT, 1 Oct. 2021
• Alexandria schools, and other districts around D.C., are installing vape detectors on campus to try to curb limit student use.
  — Sabrina Moreno, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
• Consider the one-dimensional case of a detector that is a certain horizontal distance from an emission source.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2021
• This package comes with a touch screen panel, 3 door/window sensors, 1 motion detector, 1 flood/freeze sensor, 2 key remotes, and a yard sign.
  — Brittany Vincent, BGR, 18 Oct. 2021
• Outside the sprawling Pryzm nightclub, students removed jackets and emptied their pockets before walking through a metal detector.
  — New York Times, 22 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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 experiments were akin to firing a photon gun once per second and confirming that the detector clicked once per second in response.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
• These detectors are also biased against non-native English speakers.
  — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024