How to Use microscope in a Sentence

microscope

noun
Definition of microscopenext
Synonyms for microscopenext
  • Students viewed the crystals through a microscope.
  • The team was able to observe this process through a microscope.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • And several hairs from the Hiller Lock were put under the microscope.
    — oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Woodward sliced the middle of the bones and examined them through a microscope.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Yeah, this is the NFL, where everything is under the microscope.
    — Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The Nashville Predators were under the microscope last year.
    — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The microscope was also a real win—my son plays with it most nights before bed.
    — Simone Scully, Parents, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The action film has been under the microscope due to Miller’s past bad behavior.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The doctor scraped the area and examined the cells under a microscope, Simmons said.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Doctor Volt's microscope captured of the piece of fabric.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2022
  • By the early 1960s, O’Neal and his private life were under the media microscope.
    — Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • But this is for certain: any photograph by the Princess is certain to be put under the microscope.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Or, encourage their STEM skills with a half-off kids’ microscope or a build-your-own-robot kit for 58% off.
    — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The difference comes down to the presence or absence of a unique type of cell that can be viewed under a microscope and the subtypes of each cancer.
    — Barbara Brody, Health, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The microscopes are going to come out this season, as scouts from every NFL team will come to the Coliseum to search for nits to pick.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The guards would raise their eyebrows at his microscope in its big cylindrical metal case but then let him through.
    — Brooke Jarvis, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Then, one of the slides went into a microscope and on a screen appeared a cross section of the veteran’s neuroma, stained pink.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
  • So when McHugh started his own lab at Rice, his team put his original process under the microscope.
    — WIRED, 26 June 2023
  • The collector plate was only a fraction of the size of a nail head, so reading the patterns in the silver deposit required a microscope.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
  • So the microscope enabled humans to see anew with both our eyes and our imaginations.
    — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2023
  • This is where a small piece of tissue is removed and examined under a microscope.
    — Heather L. Brannon, Md, Verywell Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The mice could then explore that world by moving a kind of treadmill, even though their little heads were held firmly in place under a microscope.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Harriot’s book comes at a time when Black history is under a microscope.
    — Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Taking a small sample of fluid and looking at it under a microscope.
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 14 Mar. 2024
  • After taking the videos with his iPhone, Bhamla and his colleagues turned to high-speed cameras and microscopes to take a closer look at the sharpshooter.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The probe allowed the researchers to watch the disease progress in living mice under a giant confocal microscope.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Strains of the bacteria found in both groups were fed to tiny C. elegans worms, whose heads were then examined under a microscope.
    — Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023

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