How to Use metal detector in a Sentence

metal detector

noun

• The man with the metal detector shown on the left side of the photo was also a stranger.
  — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
• Three men with metal detectors and sifters swept through the sand.
  — Gustavo Arellanocolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• All items will be screened through a metal detector and searched.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
• Fans do not need to remove shoes or belts to walk through the metal detectors.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 8 Sep. 2023
• There’s a metal detector but we’re whisked right past it.
  — Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 20 June 2024
• Troops searched his yard with a metal detector; one claimed to find a Ukrainian Army uniform buried in the ground.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• If students bring lunch items to school, they will be run through a metal detector and are subject to search, the email says.
  — Nicole Grether, CNN, 30 Jan. 2023
• They are not patted down or asked to walk through a metal detector.
  — oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2023
• The School Board voted in April to install walk-through metal detectors in all high schools by fall.
  — Jason Lee Loring, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2024
• Hart Plaza featured metal detectors at the entrance, food trucks and a live DJ.
  — Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2024
• But even the smaller bags that were allowed went through a metal detector.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 16 Feb. 2024
• There were bag searches and scans with a metal detector.
  — Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 24 June 2023
• The system looks like a metal detector, but students don’t have to line up and pass through single-file.
  — al, 7 Feb. 2023
• Armed with metal detectors, sometimes sifting through the sand by hand, his divers look for the smallest glint of treasure on the ocean floor.
  — Jay O'Brien, ABC News, 11 Nov. 2023
• People who had metal detectors were using them, and the rest were using their eyes and hands.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2023
• Every morning, someone from the road crew had to use a metal detector to ensure mines weren’t placed on the road overnight, Bohn said.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2024
• Pelley dove underwater with a light and a metal detector to search the lake floor in the area Boles described.
  — USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• Guests walked through metal detectors and were asked to carry clear purses or bags.
  — Angie Orellana Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
• The school board also voted to install metal detectors at all schools in the district.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2023
• To board, passengers must go through metal detectors and their bags are scanned.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
• Heck, metal detectors were even installed just off the House floor to screen lawmakers for guns.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• The entrance to the area was manned by security guards and metal detectors.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 8 Mar. 2023
• Attendees will also be wanded and asked to go through a metal detector and a bag search.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
• Board was about to wrap up for the day when his metal detector picked something up in a field in Dorset, a county in southwestern England.
  — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
• Schuermans, who has been hunting with his metal detector for years, found the fragment near the town of Kortessem in Flanders.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2023
• Attendees must go through metal detectors to enter the stands and standing area where Trump will speak.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 July 2024
• The girl unearthed the silver while using a metal detector in a cornfield last autumn.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023
• Chula Vista’s Larry and Sonia Rosemann walk up next to the metal detectors at the entrance.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2023
• This can involve crawling through a snowy minefield, holding a metal detector in one hand and a flashlight in the other.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• The idea of adding metal detectors to the subway’s 472 stations has been suggested before.
  — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 26 July 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024