How to Use magnify in a Sentence

magnify

verb

• The sound was magnified by the calm air.
• His failures have been magnified by the success of his friends.
• I don't want to magnify the importance of these problems.
• The lens magnified the image 100 times.
• Still, the Laser has one glaring fault that is magnified in the context of this elite group.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 12 Apr. 2023
• The roster was built around the two stars, with the roles of the other players designed to magnify Leonard’s and George’s strengths.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2022
• This bad habit can magnify a range of skin issues, and can leave your skin red, flaky and parched.
  — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
• Rossano Ferretti has above all the talent to magnify the hair and has his feet on the ground.
  — Cécilia Pelloux, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• The eyepiece then magnifies the light and straightens out the image for the viewer.
  — Jen McCaffery, Popular Science, 21 June 2023
• The next couple of months will magnify this dilemma for sports fans.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2022
• The curved mirror can magnify the image much like a lens, Voigt says.
  — Bysara Reardon, science.org, 14 Apr. 2023
• Schwartz’s scheme will magnify both the strengths and weaknesses of the current Browns roster.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2023
• Injuries to Hill and Waddle late in the season only magnified the team’s lack of depth.
  — Daniel Oyefusi, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2024
• The microscope magnifies up to 400x and has extra large knobs to help kids focus on their own.
  — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Bsn, Parents, 15 Nov. 2023
• This device has the ability to magnify a smartphone screen by up to five times and can do so across its 18-inch screen.
  — Jenna Clark, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2023
• And all of a sudden, one day someone gave me one of those five-time [magnifying] mirrors.
  — Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
• Galileo Galilei discovered Jupiter’s moons, and thus showed that the Earth was not the center of the universe, with a telescope that could magnify twenty times.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
• The team’s depth issues were only magnified when Hill and Waddle dealt with injuries late in the season.
  — Daniel Oyefusi, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
• As with many positions the N.F.L. takes, though, the effects are magnified because of the league’s cultural sway.
  — Jenny Vrentas, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• Borgula asked McFarlane to magnify frames in which Lyoya and Schurr are struggling over the stun gun.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 27 Oct. 2022
• Colors build, float, and fade as passages are magnified.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
• The star became elusive in her later years, which only served to magnify her status as an icon.
  — Lesley M.m. Blume, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2022
• The issue is that Hill is so important to this offense that his errors get magnified.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• These risks can also be magnified due to the asset’s emerging nature.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
• Twenty-two games is a hell of a sprint — Warriors coach Steve Kerr’s words — and each loss and piece of adversity will feel magnified with so much at stake.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• The strategies may use leverage which can magnify the effect of losses.
  — T. Rowe Price Contributor, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• These threats have only been magnified by the Israel-Hamas war, as Houthi rebels based in Yemen have increased attacks during this time.
  — Donald J. Mihalek, ABC News, 6 Dec. 2023
• The conclusion to the Colin Farrell/Vince Vaughn story took all of that year’s flaws and magnified them, by letting each moment drag on for eons.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2024
• Due to this, scientists have determined the object is magnified by a factor of at least 4,000 and is extremely small.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 10 Aug. 2023
• Hospital staffers might analyze the type of weather issues that have caused problems in the past—and then magnify those to an extreme degree.
  — Elizabeth Millard, Time, 25 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024