How to Use sensor in a Sentence

sensor

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tempo’s Core Starter pack ($245) doesn’t use a mirror or display with sensors.
    — Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Both models get new sensors across the camera array, though the iPhone 15 Pro Max adds a telephoto camera that can zoom in up to 5x.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • There’s also a moisture sensor and unlike the washer, there’s a reversible door hinge.
    — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 May 2023
  • But the system, with one two-week sensor, costs $288—a price inaccessible to many.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Chenault notes that newer CO detectors use advanced electrochemical sensors to detect even low levels of the gas.
    — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Those vendors making self-driving cars are apt to rip out steering wheels and pedals, add all manner of sensors into and on top of the vehicle, and generally do a significant makeover on the car.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024

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