device

In a sentence

Six example sentences with device, each labelled with its topic.

• The clinic lends out a small device that clips to a finger and records oxygen levels through the night.

  Medicine

• He built a simple device from two rubber bands and a spoon to hold the shutter open for long exposures.

  Photography

• A capo is a plain device: it clamps across the strings so the same shapes produce a higher key.

  Music

• The wrist device counts steps and heartbeats, and it buzzes when you have sat still for more than an hour.

  Fitness

• A cheap device for coring apples saves twenty minutes on pie day, and the hand crank version peels them too.

  Cooking

• The lab built a small device that traps a single atom in a beam of light for hours at a time.

  Science

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