How to Use pacer in a Sentence

pacer

noun
  • Her husband and pacer for the day, Travis, knocked on the door.
    Johanna Gretschel, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2019
  • The brush has three modes: clean, white, and gum health that correspond with the two-minute smart timer and pacer.
    Popular Science, 1 Oct. 2020
  • With the help of her pacer, Lee’s group found an available lodge in a village a few hours away.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2019
  • Reigning top female, Huntsville’s Alana Scarano, will be on the course, but as a pacer.
    Daniel Boyette, al, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Engels, who served as a pacer for the race, put up prizes for any runners who broke the four-minute mile for the first time as well as for those with mustaches.
    Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2021
  • In fact, Hazen prefers to run without a pacer and did so at Western, a formula that clearly works for him.
    Amanda Loudin, Outside Online, 9 July 2019
  • Both Brown and Mitchell say being a pacer is rewarding.
    Wright Wilson, Detroit Free Press, 17 Oct. 2021
  • My running pacer and friend Lino literally counted out the miles for me.
    Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The only undefeated horse racing is Elver Hanover, a two-year-old male pacer.
    Bob Roberts, cleveland.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Abby is a pacer, with both legs on each side moving parallel.
    Alex Kormann, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Our pacer witnessed some of our lowest points of tears, pain and discouragement.
    Danielle Snyder, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The Falmouth Road Race will also include an elite mile race, with a field which includes eight elite male athletes, eight elite female athletes, and one pacer.
    BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Acting like a pacer, the treadmill helps her maintain rhythm and stay focused during solo sessions.
    Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2021
  • With the race underway, Linden settled in along side her pacer, Charlie Lawson.
    Luke Webster, Outside Online, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The bad news for Dibaba is that since the elimination of pacers, Kiplagat is undefeated in Chicago.
    Chris Chavez, SI.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Laz also frowns on the use of pacers, earbuds, and conventional running advice.
    George Pendle, Esquire, 26 July 2017
  • Runners are allowed to use pacers during the second half of the race, and during the final few miles Dalton was pacing Trammell and Arneson was giving him splits.
    Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Brüush Electric Toothbrush This brush, with sonic technology, comes in a rainbow of shades and offers six cleaning modes, a two-minute timer with pacer and a lengthy battery life.
    Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Matt Scherer, a former Oregon Ducks track athlete who went on to become a professional runner and pacer, died this week.
    oregonlive, 9 Dec. 2021
  • D’haene had plenty of support from his sponsor Salomon, including a team of pacers who took turns carrying food and water and running with him.
    Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The runners will also employ careful drafting behind pacers, who run ahead for short periods of time to create a smooth slipstream for the competitors.
    National Geographic, 4 May 2017
  • Simple breathing pacer apps on smartphones, or cheap heart rate monitors, can be used to practice becoming more aware of your breathing, and controlling your heart rate.
    David Shearer, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2019
  • There have been other cybersecurity alerts issued by the FDA with respect to heart defibrillators and heart pacers known as cardiac resynchronization therapy devices.
    Thomas M. Burton, WSJ, 27 June 2019
  • An experimental cardiac pacer that used nuclear energy in 1970.
    Becky Yerak, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2022

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