How to use "degrees" in a sentence

But today it's only thirteen degrees, the coldest day so far

But how was that possible? How in the name of God could there be ice here, in a well-heated house and on a night when the outside temperature was at least twenty degrees above the freezing point?

Maybe fifty degrees

In Reno, which billed itself as "The Biggest Little City in the World," the temperature hovered at twenty-one degrees above zero as midnight approached

"The temperature's dropped thirty-five degrees in there during the past minute and a half," Zachariah said worriedly

A few degrees of change

"My degrees are in biology and biochemistry."

And when the host expires, the Wuhan-400 within him perishes a short while later, as soon as the temperature of the corpse drops below eighty-six degrees Fahrenheit

The heating coils would probably have to maintain the road at about 38 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit to be sure that it remained free of snow and ice