How to Use lens in a Sentence

lens

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  • Make sure the lens of the microscope is clean.
  • The lens offers a 5x-6x optical zoom — up to double the zoom of the iPhone 14 Pro.
    — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Each artist looked at the song through a different lens.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Below, take a peek at the action through Abrams’s lens.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Twist the lens barrel to turn it on, frame your shot, hit the shutter button, and voilà.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
  • This case isn’t so much as a case as a couple of bumpers on the top and bottom to protect the edges and the lens bulge.
    — Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2023
  • One of the more expensive parts of the cameras built-in to smartphones is the lens system.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Transparent lens membrane of the right eye covers the iris.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
  • In the box, there are nine step-up rings that can attach to the thread on the lens of a DSLR or mirrorless camera.
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The key feature of ultrasound is that it can be focused, just like light with a lens.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2023
  • The solar rays can burn through the lens and cause serious eye injury.
    — Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The other lens to it is based on this concept of moral licensing.
    — David Marchese Photo Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • In the first sweet shot, Wilson looks away from the camera as Royce looks curiously at the lens.
    — Jenny Haward, Peoplemag, 11 June 2023
  • The lens used to view those who clearly handle things by the book in the sport always is smaller, it should be stated.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
  • And the other is a young aspiring artist at the pinnacle of success as far as the way the world sees him within the lens of the show.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2023
  • The lens splits the incoming beam into a multitude of light spots, each of which can hold an atom in place.
    — Katherine Wright, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
  • With a lens that has an f2.8 aperture as well, low light conditions won’t stop you.
    — Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The lens in a 4-inch telescope has a much larger 12-square-inch light collecting area.
    — M. Josh Roberts, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2023
  • To be fair Harbaugh framed the comparison through the lens of teammates.
    — Jimmy Watkins, cleveland, 27 July 2023
  • As far as lens tint goes, there are a few different colors that could help with seeing on the course.
    — John Thompson, Men's Health, 19 July 2023
  • Installed in 1847, the great refractor with its fifteen-inch lens was, for twenty years, the largest telescope in the U.S.
    — Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
  • With several colors and lens shapes to choose from, kids ages 3 to 8 will love picking their fave.
    — Ambrosia V. Brody, Parents, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Each episode of the season is told in a different genre, and Isabel's tale is through the lens of a Hitchcockian thriller.
    — Town & Country, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Meghan Markle has been able to stay largely out of the paparazzi's lens in California.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 17 June 2023
  • The first is a long telephoto lens to get a close view of the sun during the eclipse and the second is a wider angle lens to capture both the eclipse and the landscape around you.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The strike damaged a camera lens inside the backpack, Brace said, according to the report.
    — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
  • For Hall, the rise of courses tackling social constructs through the lens of pop culture is only a good thing.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Depicting a workplace drama through the lens of horror was her plan all along.
    — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Chan has also given her a new lens through which to see a child’s behavioral problems.
    — Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Satter chooses to see the moment through a less binary lens.
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
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lens

2 of 2 verb
  • But the process and the product need to have a values lens to it.
    — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 11 Apr. 2021
  • The fourth in a series of families lensed by @willyvanderperre.
    — Victoria Rodriguez, Seventeen, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The crux of the hunt for the first stars is looking for stars that have been gravitationally lensed.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Among the movie’s charms are Diehl’s cheerful and contact-lensed face, and the pleasant mishmash of French, German, and English that the cast speak.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The Chris Hemsworth-starring actioner had been set to lens in Australia.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The telephoto lens now reaches even longer to give a true 2.5x optical zoom.
    — Popular Science, 10 Nov. 2020
  • With these parallels in their lives, Outka brings a personal touch and lens through which to tell the story of the former first lady.
    — Lisa Salinas, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Our business lens on the world stands out even more these days with so much noise and distraction seeping into our lives via screens on wrists, walls and phones.
    — Almar Latour, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Our business lens on the world stands out even more these days with so much noise and distraction seeping into our lives via screens on wrists, walls and phones. . . .
    — Elliot Kaufman, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
  • That’s the telephoto lens equipping devices with periscope cameras.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 30 June 2021
  • Nikon is adding a big telephoto lens to its mirrorless Z system.
    — Jim Fisher, PCMAG, 19 Jan. 2022
  • These have also been observed along the plane of the Milky Way galaxy, where individual stars likely cause the lensing effect.
    — NBC News, 7 June 2017
  • Richard Avedon lensed her five Vogue covers, in all of which the model is heavily accessorized with big jewelry and, in one case, a silver tinsel wig.
    — Vogue, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The Pixel 6 Pro features a new triple rear camera system with a pro-level telephoto lens with 4x optical zoom packed into the camera bar, and an 11 megapixel selfie camera on the front.
    — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 19 Oct. 2021
  • And when astronomers see lensing caused by apparently invisible mass, the distortions allow them to map vast fields of dark matter.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 10 Feb. 2016
  • The distortion is caused by the camera lens the photographer used, not a secret conspiracy to digitally stage the photo.
    — Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 7 May 2021
  • Globe photojournalist Stan Grossfeld took his long telephoto lens to the park during a recent series.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2021
  • Hadid noted that shooting this calendar was much different than her first time appearing in Pirelli's 2015 calendar lensed by Steven Meisel.
    — Chrissy Rutherford, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 July 2018
  • The periscopic telephoto lens, on the other hand, is likely to more than triple the iPhone’s maximum optical telephoto capability from 3x to around 10x.
    — Paul Monckton, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2021
  • Tanja capped off her royal meeting with a quick photoshoot lensed by Edwards, a surreal experience for her.
    — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 May 2019
  • In February, researchers also announced that lensing helped them find possible signs of planets outside our own galaxy.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Under his usual pseudonym Nagao Nakashima, Chung lensed the dramatic parts in crisp, artfully composed black-and-white, while capturing footage as if seen from a dash cam in glowing color.
    — Maggie Lee, chicagotribune.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • However, what's really caught our eye is the fact that the empowering images lensed by Mayan Toledano show Lourdes unapologetically flaunting her armpit hair.
    — Kristin Corpuz, Teen Vogue, 21 May 2018
  • Sometimes, the light of distant supernovae is bent, or lensed, by an intervening galaxy, creating multiple images of the same supernova.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 12 Feb. 2020
  • OnePlus, which offers up phones, headphones and accessories, partnered with digital camera and lens brand Hasselblad to develop new smartphone cameras for future OnePlus devices over the next three years.
    — Zoe Malin, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Investments in social-emotional support and mental health must be grounded in a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens that explicitly takes into account the needs of Black and Brown students.
    — Talia Milgrom-Elcott, Forbes, 7 May 2021
  • Each photographer on this list is already quite prolific, shooting magazine covers, releasing coffee table books, and lensing major ad campaigns.
    — Jessica Andrews, Teen Vogue, 7 Aug. 2018
  • Applying a human-centric, business design lens to how organizations operate can ensure that change initiatives are successful.
    — Billy Seabrook, Fortune, 11 June 2022
  • Cinematographer Checco Varese excels in lensing Pennywise’s nightmarish interludes with a gorgeous, surreal and inviting texture.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Yang's directorial debut, Tigertail is deliberately shot, lensing each setting distinctly.
    — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2020

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