TEMPERATURE in a Sentence

Learn TEMPERATURE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

73 example sentences for TEMPERATURE, such as:

1. Lead fuses at a low temperature.
2. Liquid nitrogen boils at a very low temperature.
3. The body adjusts itself to changes of temperature.
4. If he feels hotter than normal, take his temperature.
5. The rise in temperature is not statistically significant.

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 Meanings and Examples of TEMPERATURE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
temperature
 n.  the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Classic Sentence:
1  Hear my tale; it is long and strange, and the temperature of this place is not fitting to your fine sensations; come to the hut upon the mountain.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
2  He advised eggs, raw or hardly cooked, and seltzer water, with warm milk at a certain temperature.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 18
3  They reached the building, ornamented with magnificent fruits, which ripen at the beginning of July in the artificial temperature which takes the place of the sun, so frequently absent in our climate.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 71. Bread and Salt.
4  I dwelt long upon the fertility of our soil, and the temperature of our climate.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI.
5  He looked blankly indulgent, and yawned, and condescended, "That's a pretty slick arrangement on the radiator, so you can adjust it at any temperature you want."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  But no temperature made the melancholy mad elephants more mad or more sane.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
7  I admit my behavior was inexcusable, but then my temperature was seldom normal in these days.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
8  But on the seventh day he ate with pleasure a piece of bread with some tea, and the doctor noticed that his temperature was lower.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXII
9  Bishop of a mountain diocese, living so very close to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported among these eminent personages, ideas which altered the temperature of the assembly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
10  All week, from eight each morning till midnight, Carol fed them, bathed them, smoothed sheets, took temperatures.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
16  Symptoms of the illness include a high temperature and a persistent dry cough.
17  The body adjusts itself to changes of temperature.
18  Lead fuses at a low temperature.
19  The main bone of contention is the temperature level of the air-conditioners.
20  Liquid nitrogen boils at a very low temperature.
21  It is important to maintain a constant temperature inside the greenhouse.
22  If he feels hotter than normal, take his temperature.
23  Changes in temperature occur slowly and are constrained within relatively tight bounds.
24  Forty degrees centigrade is the maximal temperature at which this chemical reaction will occur.
25  When the temperature reaches melting point, the metal runs off as a liquid and flows into special modules.
26  The fuel spontaneously ignites because of the high temperature and pressure.
27  In this climate there are no real changes of temperature, just a wet and a dry season.
28  Red wine is fermented at a higher temperature than white.
29  Okay, a scientist reports the measurement of the temperature of a new discovered planet to be minus point eight degrees.
30  The rise in temperature is not statistically significant.