How to Use microscope in a Sentence
microscope
noun- Students viewed the crystals through a microscope.
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The next step was to put all that steel under the microscope.
—Adam Rogers, WIRED, 10 Aug. 2019
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It should be looked at with every bit of the same microscope.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026
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But too much time under the microscope can cause its own harms.
—Grace Huckins, Wired, 6 Jan. 2021
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The team was able to observe this process through a microscope.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023
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Under a microscope, a snowflake looks kind of clear.
—Ray Petelin, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2026
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The team watched under a microscope as the two species closed in on each other.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 June 2025
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With the aid of a microscope, suddenly a new world of gills and spores opened up.
—Barbara Hall, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2022
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The life and death struggles of insects are viewed through a microscope.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
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Touch plants, grind them up and smell them, study them under microscopes, and meet the gente who care for them.
—San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Feb. 2023
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The microscope slide looked like a tabletop speckled with black spots.
—James Somers, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2021
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Of course, there’s also a painter’s easel, a chisel, and a microscope.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2022
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Plus, the jobs market will be under the microscope.
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 3 May 2026
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The microscope was also a real win—my son plays with it most nights before bed.
—Simone Scully, Parents, 26 Oct. 2023
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Its top bib was made of intricate white lace like the veins of a petal under a microscope.
—Thomas Adamson, ajc, 5 July 2022
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And yet when the urine was examined under a microscope, no blood was seen.
—New York Times, 26 May 2022
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Legacies with top stars around the game are studied under a microscope these days.
—Tim Crowley, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
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The pollens stick to the grease, then the center stains and counts them under a microscope.
—Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2021
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The crystal seen in Korolev’s microscope is a case in point.
—James Dinneen, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
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Through a microscope, pathologists can see a great deal about a tumor.
—Angus Chen, STAT, 18 Feb. 2026
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Now, though, fixing the screen on an iPhone will require a microscope.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 7 Nov. 2021
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The secondary, as usual the last few years, will be under microscope.
—Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 13 July 2021
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Ohio State's defense, under the microscope all week, was a mixed bag.
—Bill Rabinowitz, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2021
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Ava can’t even get her cube to move, let alone get it back to her microscope with the right evidence pointing up.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 25 Sep. 2025
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And most of them were that he was put under the microscope and challenged in a number of areas.
—Tyler James, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Dec. 2020
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The name comes from the virus’ shape, which under a microscope looks like a blob surrounded by crown-like spikes.
—Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2020
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When one of the lab’s slides goes under a microscope, the ager zooms in on the long vertical edge of the tooth root.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 28 Sep. 2023
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Still, like Ainge said, the franchise is now built around the star tandem and the microscope is on them.
—Sean Deveney, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
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The rules are so tiny as to appear like pin dots, but are legible under the lens of a microscope.
—Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 1 Feb. 2024
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Under the microscope, Prometheoarchaeum proved to be a strange beast.
—Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2020
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