TELESCOPE in a Sentence
Learn TELESCOPE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
30 example sentences for TELESCOPE, such as:
1. He polished the convex lens of his telescope.
2. The old gentleman with the telescope, no doubt.
3. The telescope was pointing in the wrong direction.
4. I see him every day through my telescope upon the roof.
5. She lifted her left hand, which held a closed telescope.
2. The old gentleman with the telescope, no doubt.
3. The telescope was pointing in the wrong direction.
4. I see him every day through my telescope upon the roof.
5. She lifted her left hand, which held a closed telescope.
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Meanings and Examples of TELESCOPE
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telescope
v. crush together or collapse
v. make smaller or shorter
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1 He was remotely interested; but like a man looking down a microscope, or up a telescope.
2 She lifted her left hand, which held a closed telescope.
3 At last she gave up her spying attitude, closed the telescope, and turned to the decaying embers.
4 She threw away the stick, took the glass in her hand, the telescope under her arm, and moved on.
5 When he was gone Eustacia, leaving her telescope and hourglass by the gate, brushed forward from the wicket towards the angle of the bank, under the fire.
6 She saw from a distance that the captain was on the bank sweeping the horizon with his telescope; and bidding Venn to wait where he stood she entered the house alone.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
7 The day was fine and clear; and the persons not being more than half a mile off she could see their every detail with the telescope.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
8 I see him every day through my telescope upon the roof.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
9 The telescope, a formidable instrument mounted upon a tripod, stood upon the flat leads of the house.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
10 The old gentleman with the telescope, no doubt.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
Context Highlight In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
11 Franz adjusted his telescope, and directed it towards the yacht.
12 Then, without taking his eyes from the object which had first attracted his attention, he asked for his telescope.
13 She contentedly lugged her pasteboard telescope from the station to her cousin, Tina Malmquist, maid of all work in the residence of Mrs. Luke Dawson.
14 In front is a leather rack, in which to keep your speaking trumpet, pipe, telescope, and other nautical conveniences.
15 At a mute sign from him, a telescope was handed him which he rested on the back of a happy page who had run up to him, and he gazed at the opposite bank.
Example Sentence:
1 Philip spent his first day in Denver to orient the telescope toward the moon.
2 He polished the convex lens of his telescope.
3 She was amazed at the number of astral bodies the new telescope revealed.
4 The telescope was pointing in the wrong direction.
5 Love looks with telescope; envy with microscope.
6 Details on the moon's surface can only be seen through a telescope.
7 More powerful telescopes than Kepler will be needed to fish out more detail about whether the extrasolar planets do indeed have water.
8 Another scientist might have proposed a modification in the optical theory governing the operation of the telescopes used in the investigation.