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    Use "lens" in a sentence

    lens example sentences

    lens


    lensed


    lenses


    lensing


    1. It was dim, there was a setting for how transparent each lens was to the outside world, as well as its optical magnification


    2. She hurried to get her last message off his lens as Herndon came into the room


    3. opens the back of the Rolex with a tool, a jeweler’s lens on one eye


    4. That ball was also the lens of the camera and it distorted his image as he leaned close


    5. I heard the whir of the lens as the barber focussed in


    6. She talked with slow, fluid gestures and had blue, blue dreamy eyes that sometimes focused on the phonecam, making Alfred afraid that she had spotted the lens


    7. “Ah, I see” said the Alderfolk, he pulled out a glass lens on a


    8. allowed the lens to drop


    9. But the lens effect of the basin air made it swell as it neared the horizon


    10. ' Adrian had taken off his sunglasses and was admiring the reflection of his diamond earring in a lens - until he turned to clamp my hand in his grip

    11. The device's purpose and origin were unknown, but there were pictures in the article that clearly showed a lens, making him believe it was meant to observe


    12. replacing the lens cap and leaving the blessed thing


    13. Unfortunately they were waving their hands to show sizes and where the lens really goes


    14. The only video action was when one of the girls, who was round-faced with cute dimples on her cheeks and curly brown hair, rummaged in the bag and then put it back blocking the whole lens completely


    15. It was dark now and the Prof illuminated the way with a gas lantern, its small white flame remarkably powerful due to a polished reflector at the back and a large magnifying lens attached to the front


    16. Nothing more complicated than one lens, one chip, a body and propulsive unit was allowed within sight of native humans


    17. This vestibule was flanked by a reading alcove with desk, very comfortable chair and spot-lantern on a boom stand with a focus handle on its lens and another petcock on its burner


    18. lens at the top of the laptop screen, its built-in Cyclops webcam, its single eye, even though it


    19. Then he remembered the tiny lens, the


    20. A hideous, looming multi lens lamp

    21. I could see the tears form in his eyes as the lens shattered on a stone, but admired his restraint when all he said was, "Shit!"


    22. He remembered how he was directly in front of the camera lens and that he was certain he would be in one of the photographs clearly


    23. He put the paddle down, and with full zoom on the lens, took a couple of shots


    24. Bru used his telephoto lens to look into the shelter’s interior, popping off a few shots with his flash


    25. He was known for lying on the ground, picking apart moss in front of a macro lens, looking for nematodes and shit


    26. The eyes of both were locked on the lens


    27. He looked into his lens looking at the surrounding countryside as he began to pull his thoughts together


    28. It was then that he noticed something in the lens


    29. Even the smallest lettering on the bow of boat or ship was easily readable with the aid of her telephoto camera lens that she had thought to bring


    30. There was a pin-prick camera lens, a torch and several other buttons of various size and colour, but he didn’t have a clue what they were meant for

    31. He fires, and green paint sprays across one of the windows, missing the camera lens


    32. Through the scope I find the camera, and then squint to stare at the lens


    33. I squeeze the trigger and the paintball hits the camera, spraying blue paint across the lens


    34. Its lens shatters


    35. His discovery of sunspots was later attributed by critics to lens defects


    36. Calvin looked at his camera and said, “I hear this model has a really good close-up lens


    37. As I adjusted the lens for a close-up, I recognized one of the men from Dad’s mug book


    38. The little red light over the lens starts blinking


    39. pictures of people, the best bet is to attach a telephoto lens to your camera


    40. red button under the lens and the doctor will be summoned

    41. and knife, and she’d used a glass bottle once as a lens to focus the


    42. Klimek used his laser to burn off a membrane which had grown over the left plastic lens that he had inserted fall 1996 when he removed cataracts from both eyes


    43. lens, dye it with ink, cook it, analyze its molecular structure, determine the genetic sequence of its cells, and so forth


    44. He had a much stronger personality than da Costa and made a living as a lens grinder


    45. With that, she triggered a co-operative group Translocation, and they appeared in the late afternoon sun, high above the blue bowl, which Mark immediately realized was now a perfectly smooth and symmetrical concave lens


    46. “If we cast a great magic lens between the sun and the demons, and I mean as large as we can possibly make it with every qualified spell-caster we have, we can focus enough heat and light onto the demons’ rock to boil it


    47. Slung around his neck were a Nikon 350 with telephoto lens and a Hasselblad 500EL


    48. It was then that she picked up her cellphone, pointing the camera lens at him


    49. “I had routinely solved difficult problems as a lawyer, but the thinking was compartmentalized – limited to an attorney’s lens


    50. “It helps students see health care with a different lens












































    1. The captain stared from the huge dark lensed port, and there indeed was the sun, and to go to that sun and touch it and steal part of it forever away was his quiet and single idea


    1. He takes off his specs and carefully cleans the lenses on his dressing gown


    2. Next to me stood another American lady wearing a large pair of glasses with unusually thick funky lenses all supported by an unfortunate growth on the side of her nose


    3. I was quite taken aback and shot upright just in time to catch myself reflected in two pairs of mirrored lenses before reeling into two pairs of maroon shorts and almost passing out


    4. They each had invisible keypads, no doubt projected on their contact lenses by their in-ears


    5. The thick lenses of his glassed peeked up over the


    6. Roman looked up to the thick lenses and yellow eyes of Boss Chatterling


    7. of his lenses broken in its frame


    8. glasses, the lenses of which were long gone


    9. If we are passing through a landscape of great beauty we might choose to adjust the lenses to ‘zoom in’ on its glory


    10. However, when the scenery changes to one which is just the exact opposite, we could then readjust the lenses to ‘zoom out’

    11. Both of the news commentators always wear dark-rimmed eye glasses (that have had their lenses removed) and talk in a rapid-fire “You gotta hear this!” style


    12. Her contact lenses slotted into an empty case in the box lid


    13. In a press conference US Defence secretary Jerome Malchom spoke to an international media gathering, with over a hundred lenses and mikes focused on him


    14. Your vision is restricted and sometimes the lenses mist up


    15. Our Navy diver told us to spit onto the lenses and rub it to prevent misting


    16. She had an incredible view for her lenses to capture the scene, all the facial expressions on the people from both sides of the fence


    17. He was small-boned and short, and I was sure he wore contact lenses on his black eyes which enhanced his head of grey hair


    18. The man looked intently at her through lenses that magnified his eyes


    19. He then flicked off his brown contact lenses returning his eyes to his real colour


    20. His optical lenses zoomed in

    21. Perched on the tip of his nose was a pair of tortoise shell glasses with dark blue lenses


    22. “I wish to obtain a set of spectacles, but with what I believe are called, ‘non-refractive lenses


    23. non-refractive lenses and take my photo wearing them


    24. The glasses felt odd, but the lenses were as he had requested and did not impair his vision


    25. The forty-something single father of two little girls had a pretty naïve mental picture of a pill-capsule-shaped critter, complete with six metallic, double-articulated legs, and a couple of lenses on the front end


    26. His hands shook, the lenses steamed, and the sphere was still too far away to make out details


    27. Soon the hidden corners of Dauntless headquarters will be coated in multicolored paint, blocking the lenses of the surveillance cameras


    28. He ground his own lenses from Venetian glass and improved magnification by a factor of twenty, over unaided


    29. “As a specimen,” answered Hojo, adjusting the square lenses of


    30. The lenses looked thick, so maybe she wore contacts during the day, but I thought she looked better with glasses

    31. lenses in to view it, it was becoming increasingly hard to focus as the creature had already begun to expand itself for its lucky


    32. That's why you wear different colored lenses everyday


    33. And fisheye lenses


    34. These six are astronomers I have worked with who still remember the crafting of large lenses, a skill which is unfortunately in decline since the advent of high-quality magnification spells


    35. “And I found what I was seeking all that time, just less than five millennia ago! I learned to cast lenses from magic itself, vast circular spells out in the void past the moons, bending light to my eyes! First I learned to find worlds around the closer stars, and then to see if they had air and water and land, and then to see if they had cities with artificial lights glowing on their dark sides! And among the billions of stars there are billions of worlds, and tens of thousands of them have life as we know it! I have confirmed the existence of at least nine hundred and twenty-one worlds bearing intelligent life!”


    36. Batistuta took the lenses and placed them onto their


    37. within the body – including plasma lenses and wires!


    38. lenses can be distinguished in gravitational lensing – isothermal lenses and


    39. I took a breath, removed my shades and stared at my reflection in the lenses


    40. Your friend’s laughs mute also, you see masses of black, brown, and strawberry smiles, their eyes blackened out behind sunglass lenses

    41. “Don’t get lost,” Ren looks at you through the binocular lenses


    42. You want to swim, you sink to the depths of the ocean, fish eyes bubble their lenses, their bodies going belly up, back stroking to vanishing point


    43. The lenses within the device were in working condition despite the years of control by the Stalactite Goblins and Orcs


    44. Unwittingly, they were observing differently, looking at both Jarek and Zeno through less rigid lenses


    45. He kept track of us and the situation by special lenses we wore in helmets designed for such use


    46. David Bohm had suggested that were we to view the cosmos without the lenses that outfit our telescopes; the universe would appear to us as a hologram


    47. Pribram extended this insight by noting that were we deprived of the lenses of our eyes and the lens-like processes of our other sensory receptors, we would be immersed in holographic experiences


    48. But, he says, our beliefs act like filters on that camera, filtering out certain frequencies and changing the picture that comes in; and he offers a very good example of this during his workshops when he puts one slide on the screen that makes no real sense……… and has the audience put on a pair of glasses he provides with green lenses and look at the picture


    49. Then he has them trade the green lenses for glasses with red lenses and look at the same picture (the audience sees two very different pictures on the screen by filtering out certain light waves)


    50. Place the filters in front of your camera lenses, so that your lenses would be protected from scrapes or knocks











































    1. It appeared as a gap in space, a blackness surrounded by the lensing effect so typical of a black hole


    2. lensing was not known then Based on a current interpretation of lead-


    3. Most examples of gravitational lensing show multiple images of the object


    4. lenses can be distinguished in gravitational lensing – isothermal lenses and


    5. the universe, including the rotational speeds of galaxies, gravitational lensing of background objects by


    6. Zwicky is the "Father of Dark Matter," coining the term itself, as well as gravitational lensing and the sky


    7. called gravitational lensing, where the gravity of large bodies such as suns (stars) and planets bend


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    Synonyms for "lens"

    lens lens system lense electron lens crystalline lens lens of the eye genus lens mirror looking glass glass

    "lens" definitions

    a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images


    genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils


    (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood


    biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina


    electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons