Sample Sentences forbarometer (auto-selected)
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The sky was darker now, and he checked the barometer.† (source)
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I think now that he was not so surprised as I. As we had sailed out into the blackness, I recall how he tapped at the barometer and exclaimed softly to himself; how he shuffled about on his knees in the bed of the Cloud-cutter, sifting through our packages; how he separated the least necessary into a pile at the stern.† (source)
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Grandmother was extremely—almost clinically—interested in Lydia's senility, because she took Lydia's behavior as a barometer regarding what she could soon expect of herself.† (source)
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She cared about what we did or failed to do—our homework, our chores, our share of the cooking and cleaning—and expected our feelings about these doings to rise and fall according to some sort of childhood barometer, irrelevant to her, having to do with "phases."† (source)
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Kabuo, his radio on, checked his barometer; it still held steady despite talk of rough weather, cold squalls of sleet reported to the north, out of the Strait of Georgia.† (source)
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It was a day of lassitude too, hot and close, with, I am told, a rapidly fluctuating barometer.† (source)
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Never could Starbuck forget the old man's aspect, when one night going down into the cabin to mark how the barometer stood, he saw him with closed eyes sitting straight in his floor-screwed chair; the rain and half-melted sleet of the storm from which he had some time before emerged, still slowly dripping from the unremoved hat and coat.† (source)
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Lowered barometric pressure for him was like laughing gas.† (source)
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There were old clocks and vases, mortars and retorts, knives and dolls, quill pens and bookends, octants and sextants, compasses and barometers.† (source)
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The wind was then blowing from the south-west in the mild degree which in barometrical language is ranked 'No.† (source)
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Ralph's work dipped and peaked with the barometer.† (source)
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The higher he climbed, the lower the barometric pressure fell, and the worse his vision became.† (source)
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The office, which had an outside entrance for ordinary visitors, was separated from the parlor by a sliding door; though Mr. Clutter occasionally shared the office with Gerald Van Vleet, a young man who assisted him with the management of the farm, it was fundamentally his retreat-an orderly sanctuary, paneled in walnut veneer, where, surrounded by weather barometers, rain charts, a pair of binoculars, he sat like a captain in his cabin, a navigator piloting River Valley's sometimes risky passage through the seasons.† (source)
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There are no indications of any great change in the barometrical situation.† (source)
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The needle of the barometer was planted squarely in the quadrant marked FAIR.† (source)
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There was food in the wagon, and wine-and a camera, and a stamp collection, and a stuffed owl, and a mantel clock that ran on changes of barometric pressure.† (source)
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