How to Use sensor in a Sentence

sensor

noun

• Infrared sensors can track an object's movement.
• Image sensors are used in digital cameras.
• This smart sensor, for instance, sits in the soil next to your plant and pairs with an app.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
• Therefore, the sensor will come in handy in AR apps like the Measure apps.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 5 Dec. 2022
• The advanced sensor suites Waymo and Cruise use come at a high cost.
  — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
• Other units have tilt sensors that shut off before the heater falls.
  — Andrew Waite, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
• The straightener’s smart heat sensor adapts to your hair type so there’s overall less hair spillage on the sides of the plates and no flyaway hairs.
  — Deanna Pai, Glamour, 21 Nov. 2023
• That oval on the side must be a radio cutout, since there's no fingerprint sensor.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2023
• In cars with faulty Hall effect sensor wiring, the airbag may not trigger during a crash.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 10 July 2024
• And for those who love a bit of control, it’s got a light sensor that adjusts brightness based on your room’s vibe.
  — Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
• This isn’t the case for the blood oxygen sensors in most consumer-grade smartwatches.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 20 Sep. 2024
• The instruments ranged from high-tech custom sensors to smartphones on the ground around the SRC’s flight path and landing site.
  — Brian Elbing, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2024
• That leak also claimed that the base Pixel 9 would come with three camera sensors, instead of the two that the Pixel 8 is equipped with.
  — Janhoi McGregor, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• The base model's keyboard still doesn't include a Touch ID sensor.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 2023
• The pixel count stays the same, but the 24MP sensor is a newer design than the similar chip in the original S5.
  — PCMAG, 4 Jan. 2023
• In other words, well before the rod even stopped vibrating, the body’s touch sensors had already sent signals about the tool to the brain.
  — Chip Colwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
• Screens guide players through the course, scores are kept by electronic sensors in the balls, and whoever stacks up the most points wins.
  — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2023
• The brush also has a sensor that alerts and pauses the brush when too much pressure is being applied.
  — Anamaria Glavan, Allure, 1 Oct. 2024
• How accurate does a sensor have to be to lead to a change in your blood-flow simulation?
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2024
• Our team staged scenarios to test any motion sensors and cycled through each mode for the lights that had more than one.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 20 June 2023
• At the same time, there are questions around how the visual component would work if the sensors were blocked by, say, a person with long hair.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 15 May 2024
• In China, train conductors of the Beijing-Shanghai line, the busiest of its kind in the world, wear brain sensors throughout their work day.
  — Nita A. Farahany, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2023
• The sensor picks up the vibrations of weevil larvae and sends a warning to an app installed on the farmer’s smartphone.
  — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
• Instead of in a normal camera design, the light goes through the lens and hits the sensor pretty much directly.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2023
• That’s thanks to a first of its kind long-range sensor the automaker is expected to activate in 2025.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 19 Sep. 2024
• At this point in the film, my sensitivity sensors were still wary.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 May 2024
• The platform collects data from in-store sensors and 15 other unique datasets.
  — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
• Besides the camera lenses, the bar has an LED flash and a second mystery sensor circle.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2024
• However, the Premium version has 12 sensors whereas the others have eight.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
• Most importantly, it’s packed with research-grade sensors that accurately measure key health metrics like heart rate, temperature, and more — around the clock.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 29 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024