Temperature

//ˈtɛm.pəɹˌt͡ʃɚ//

"Temperature" in a Sentence (23 examples)

You don't have a temperature.

Milk boils at a higher temperature than water.

The temperature has been below freezing for several days.

What's the temperature?

The temperature fell several degrees.

The temperature has suddenly dropped.

I'm keeping a record of basal body temperature.

The nurse took his temperature with a thermometer.

The nurse took his temperature.

A nurse took my temperature.

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The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.

The temperature in the room dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold.

The most accurate way to take your temperature is by sticking a thermometer up your butt.

Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.

The opposite issue emerges in the summer when students face scorching temperatures with unreliable or nonexistent air conditioning.

You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.

"Aren't you feeling so well this morning?" she asked him anxiously. "Do you think you've got a temperature?"

In consequence, macroscopic amounts of matter in thermal contact with one another tend to be at the same temperature, a fact of sufficient fundamental importance to merit belated designation as the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics.

But it is both easier and more accurate to take the industry's true temperature at small private gatherings like a conference organized by the Ziff Davis publishing company in northern California last week.

[Stephen] Miller's words did not seem designed to lower the temperature.

Our intemperence it is that pulls so many several incurable diseases on our heads, that hastens old age, perverts our temperature, and brings upon us sudden death.

[…]that not only the production of a rational Being was concern'd in it, but that possibly the happy foundation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind […]

Only a strong dose of love will cure / A woman with an angry temperature.

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