Examples of spyglass in a Sentence
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Max & Holly Stumble Upon Henry’s Traumatic Memory Out in the desert, where Holly draws the connection that the shape of the caves mimics the aperture in the spyglass, an M of sorts, she and Max literally almost fall down a mineshaft.
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Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 25 Dec. 2025
The spyglasses This divide between form and function isn’t new.
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 10 Jan. 2025
The imaginative set includes an expandable toy spyglass, a toy compass that really spins, shoulder bag and a pretend key ring with baubles and dinglehopper.
—Anna Tingley, Variety, 12 May 2023
The legs of a girl who happens to be sheltering by chance under this same colonnade— from atop her knee a drop admires the leg’s cascade, a spyglass sent from heaven by our great voyeur.
—Mira Rosenthal, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
They’re also given a working spyglass to look out for incoming Spanish ships and a compass to chart out cannon ranges from the ruins of the fort over the Frederica river.
—Alex Hazlett, Outside Online, 9 Nov. 2022
Think of it as a handheld telescope or spyglass, long a favorite of sea captains and pirates, after all.
—Everett Potter, Forbes, 18 May 2021
Rather than viewing the facility through the eyes of those seeking a new life, the French poet and author hands the spyglass instead to a fictional bureaucrat within its walls.
—Rebekah Denn, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2020
Lucas Alamán, perhaps the greatest nineteenth-century Mexican historian, had watched the final battles for Mexico City with a spyglass from the roof of his house in the barrio of San Cosme.
—Enrique Krauze, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2013
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Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 25 Dec. 2025
The spyglasses This divide between form and function isn’t new.
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 10 Jan. 2025
The imaginative set includes an expandable toy spyglass, a toy compass that really spins, shoulder bag and a pretend key ring with baubles and dinglehopper.
—Anna Tingley, Variety, 12 May 2023
The legs of a girl who happens to be sheltering by chance under this same colonnade— from atop her knee a drop admires the leg’s cascade, a spyglass sent from heaven by our great voyeur.
—Mira Rosenthal, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
They’re also given a working spyglass to look out for incoming Spanish ships and a compass to chart out cannon ranges from the ruins of the fort over the Frederica river.
—Alex Hazlett, Outside Online, 9 Nov. 2022
Think of it as a handheld telescope or spyglass, long a favorite of sea captains and pirates, after all.
—Everett Potter, Forbes, 18 May 2021
Rather than viewing the facility through the eyes of those seeking a new life, the French poet and author hands the spyglass instead to a fictional bureaucrat within its walls.
—Rebekah Denn, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2020
Lucas Alamán, perhaps the greatest nineteenth-century Mexican historian, had watched the final battles for Mexico City with a spyglass from the roof of his house in the barrio of San Cosme.
—Enrique Krauze, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2013
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“Spyglass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spyglass. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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spyglass
noun
spy·glass
ˈspī-ˌglas 
: a small telescope
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