How to Use magnifying glass in a Sentence

magnifying glass

noun
  • Use a magnifying glass to look for the mites.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2026
  • No need to bust out the magnifying glass.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Pair with a nice magnifying glass.
    Lit Hub Approved, Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The magnifying glass is on every team, who starts to fold now that the stakes are higher?
    Jordan Mendoza, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Use a magnifying glass, and look on the underside of foliage where mites like to hide.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 May 2026
  • Use a magnifying glass, and look on the underside of foliage where mites like to hide.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Imagine the ants were holding the magnifying glass.
    Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2026
  • For Almqvist, af Klint became the magnifying glass through which a remote age could come alive.
    Alice Gregory, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Victor Turner would love to put claimers under his magnifying glass.
    Chuck Palahniuk, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Styles said despite the magnifying glass on the department, no meaningful changes have been made.
    Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Grab a magnifying glass and take a look at what appears to be a patch of one type of moss will reveal a multitude of different shapes and forms.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Grab a magnifying glass and take a look at what appears to be a patch of one type of moss will reveal a multitude of different shapes and forms.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2026
  • But Selby argues the only way to see the numbers on the lock is through a piece of glass on top of the lock that acts like a magnifying glass.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Even people who have 20-20 vision need a magnifying glass!
    Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2026
  • That doesn't quite answer the question as to why the feds have turned a magnifying glass toward the DJI brand.
    PC Magazine, 17 Nov. 2025
  • That doesn't quite answer the question as to why the feds have turned a magnifying glass toward the DJI brand.
    PC Magazine, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Avoid overhead watering in the middle of the day because the water drops on the leaves can act as a magnifying glass and cause scorch spots on leaves and flowers.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 22 June 2026
  • Under a magnifying glass, those moving yellow, red, brown, or green dots have eight legs to help with identification.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2026
  • These nanoparticles interact with light in unique ways – kind of like how a magnifying glass focuses sunlight.
    Andres B. Sanchez Alvarado, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The Palisades fire put a magnifying glass on our city’s preparedness for a major disaster.
    Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 May 2026
  • The two were surrounded by plastic toys, while a plastic magnifying glass rested on Archer's stomach.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
  • This effect is analogous to concentrating sunlight with a magnifying glass to ignite a dry leaf.
    Richard J. Price, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Because tracking these microscopic misfits through plant tissues is akin to chasing ghosts with a magnifying glass.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Optional extras include a waterproof capsule for storing items such as pills; an analog watch; and a loupe (aka magnifying glass).
    New Atlas, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Scorpio season puts everything from your core values to your sense of self-worth under a magnifying glass — finances included.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Both OSes have magnifying glass icons and simple keyboard shortcuts to summon the search feature.
    PC Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Peering through a magnifying glass, however, reveals fine details in the small print measuring about two inches by three inches, or about three times the size of a postage stamp.
    Susan B. Barnes, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The device works like a convex magnifying glass lens that focuses light into a narrow, concentrated beam.
    New Atlas, 14 June 2026
  • Weddings, no offense to the couples who have them, are socio-celebratory rorschach tests that are almost designed to hold a magnifying glass up to the lives of their guests.
    Bobby Finger june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • The relationship isn’t a reprieve from the systemic forces bearing down on them individually, but rather a magnifying glass for them.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025

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