Example sentences for: speedometer

How can you use “speedometer” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In short, now that he knows (or, anyway, prefers to believe) that the speedometer has been understating his speed, and that the shimmy therefore doesn't start until he is really going 55, he thinks that he can drive 55 as measured using that same speedometer . Uh-uh.

  • A couple of years ago the editor of Business Week had a problem with his car: Whenever he went too fast--whenever the needle on his speedometer went above 40--the car developed a dangerous shimmy.

  • Shepard's essay was pretty obviously intended as a response to economists--including Princeton's Alan Blinder, Morgan Stanley's Steve Roach, and me--who have recently been critical of the New Economy doctrine, among other things pointing out (though apparently to little effect) the dependence of that doctrine on the speedometer fallacy.

  • It would not be necessary for the mechanic to explain pedantically that, while it was true that the news about the speedometer implied that the car could go faster than previously thought, it did not change the speedometer reading at which the car shimmied.

  • Moreover, he had found another problem: The speedometer was defective.


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