How to Use calibrate in a Sentence

calibrate

verb
  • All should be calibrated at some point, but each comes with its own pros and cons.
    — Chris Cona, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Let the door calibrate and test the lock using the app to lock and unlock your door.
    — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 15 Oct. 2021
  • This team’s ceiling is hard to calibrate.
    — Noah Furtado, Houston Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Democrats have to calibrate their platform to win over voters.
    — NBC News, 30 Oct. 2022
  • There are these sea change moments for young bands that don’t know how to respond or calibrate to them.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Scientists have figured out a gene that seems to calibrate how wet or dry your wax is.
    — Henry Ou, The Conversation, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Did the two of you calibrate each one together, or was that all her own instinct?
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 July 2024
  • Nor was the dust storm, with the dust either shed from the cameras or calibrated out.
    — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 31 Aug. 2018
  • Scorsese calibrates her place in the film with a delicate sense of form.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
  • My mother had spent years calibrating the right drugs at the right doses.
    — James Hart, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The sound design must be calibrated to avoid any hint of screaming.
    — Joanne Ostrow, The Know, 14 Apr. 2017
  • Those are all part of the new math calibrated on Tuesday.
    — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 10 June 2026
  • What did those shifts mean for you, in terms of calibrating your performance?
    — Tomris Laffly, ELLE, 26 May 2023
  • Usefully, this worked straight out of the box, without the need to calibrate.
    — New Atlas, 12 July 2024
  • The choice to employ Plaza as the face of the plant-milk spoof was calibrated, of course.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The sacks were calibrated to weigh one-quarter of each player’s weight.
    — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Be sure to read through the instructions to calibrate the app for your phone properly.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2021
  • All the while, Christie and his front-of-the-house team will carefully calibrate the mood of the room.
    — Andy Wang, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Each pitch brings a slow diligence as if scrubbing for surgery or calibrating the splitting of an atom.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 21 June 2017
  • But there is not much history to calibrate any team’s finish to its chances of earning a berth.
    — Emily Giambalvo, New York Times, 18 June 2026
  • Your primary brief wasn’t to calibrate the harms done by hate speech to the climate of your workplace.
    — New York Times, 7 June 2022
  • That’s why this fight calls for leaders who can calibrate and adapt — just as each of us must do in this weird pandemic world.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2021
  • To be able to not only maintain them, but repair them and calibrate them, is a good feeling for me.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The cartoon well calibrates its PG thrills to give kids a mild case of the shivers.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025
  • The team was a lab technician who had briefly come to help calibrate a machine in the city’s public health lab.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 11 June 2025
  • Courage and bravery are knowing when to act, when to redirect, when to calibrate, when to push.
    — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 2 June 2020
  • His feel for movement and space seems calibrated already.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
  • When leaders send clear, honest signals, people can calibrate in the face of threat.
    — Deepti Hajela, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • The system runs in the background once cameras are placed and calibrated.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Probing the age of moon rocks was one of the first ways scientists attempted to calibrate the age of the moon.
    — Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 8 May 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'calibrate.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: