DETECT in a Sentence
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200 example sentences for DETECT, such as:
1. The police prevent and detect crime.
2. Many forms of cancer can be cured if detected early.
3. I thought I could detect a slight West Country accent.
4. The dentist could detect no sign of decay in her teeth.
5. He could always detect the presence of anyone in a room.
2. Many forms of cancer can be cured if detected early.
3. I thought I could detect a slight West Country accent.
4. The dentist could detect no sign of decay in her teeth.
5. He could always detect the presence of anyone in a room.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DETECT
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detect
v. discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
Classic Sentence: (134 in 9 pages)
1 His attitude had been one of admiring spectatorship, and he would have been almost sorry to detect in her any emotional weakness which should interfere with the fulfilment of her aims.
2 Now that she had carried out her preposterous impulse to see what he was like, she was cold, she was as ready to detect familiarities as the virtuous Miss Ella Stowbody.
3 Hereby the casks are sought to be kept damply tight; while by the changed character of the withdrawn water, the mariners readily detect any serious leakage in the precious cargo.
4 He could always detect the presence of anyone in a room.
5 When assured that all was still, and unable to detect, even by the aid of his practiced senses, any sign of his approaching foes, he would deliberately resume his slow and guarded progress.
6 Every effort, however, to detect the least evidence of the approach of their hidden enemies was as fruitless as the inquiry after his late companions.
7 In these brief pauses, Heyward and the sisters listened, with senses rendered doubly acute by the danger, to detect any symptoms which might announce the proximity of their foes.
8 The other was a most artful deceiver, and could be understood only by such as were skilful enough to detect his cunningly-devised frauds.
9 He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceases to be a man.
10 The youth studied the faces of his companions, ever on the watch to detect kindred emotions.
11 The youth could detect no expression that would allow him to believe that the other was giving a thought to his narrowed future, the pictured dungeons, perhaps, and starvations and brutalities, liable to the imagination.
12 She had even learnt to detect, in the very gentleness which had first delighted her, an affectation and a sameness to disgust and weary.
13 I walked as if for a wager, mile after mile, till a turn brought me in view of the Heights; but no Catherine could I detect, far or near.
14 Still, I thought I could detect in his physiognomy a mind owning better qualities than his father ever possessed.
15 And often, from the side of my eye, I could detect her raising a hand, and brushing something off her cheek.
Example Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
1 I thought I could detect a slight West Country accent.
2 The latest Japanese vacuum cleaners contain sensors that detect the amount of dust and type of floor.
3 The dentist could detect no sign of decay in her teeth.
4 It is the business of the police to prevent and detect crime and of the law courts to punish crime.
5 The police prevent and detect crime.
6 An observant doctor can often detect depression from expression, posture, and movement.
7 The new test should enable doctors to detect the disease early.
8 They won't detect prescription drugs or medication such as cold or flu tablets.
9 This filter is able to detect invalid clicks in real-time, with the goal of removing them before they ever show up in the AdWords console.
10 We really don't yet have technology that can effectively detect the presence of radiation in naval cargo.
11 This enables a radar to detect objects at ranges where other emissions, such as sound or visible light, would be too weak to detect.
12 A fully fledged ocean-crossing cable helps them detect all sorts of seismic rumbles; that would be a boon to geologists who focus on the Eurasian and African tectonic plates.
13 “Under the public Wi-Fi network situations, attackers can very easily eavesdrop and make falsifications on encrypted communications,” Hayashi added. “Victims cannot detect any trace of the attacks.”
14 Many forms of cancer can be cured if detected early.
15 To explain this, they hypothesise that galaxies must contain a great deal of missing matter which cannot be detected.